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| author | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2018-08-31 12:34:55 +0300 |
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| committer | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2018-09-02 20:13:48 +0300 |
| commit | fd65465b7016dc6d9fa5c2f39cc706c231c9a089 (patch) | |
| tree | 56763fcfd78b59f7f8096a3616a34ef8fec30245 /Documentation/process | |
| parent | bc8d2e20a3eb2f8d268ad7bbca878cf3acdcf389 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fd65465b7016dc6d9fa5c2f39cc706c231c9a089.tar.xz | |
kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}config
Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression:
"I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system
location (as do 99%+ on actual developers probably) and in this
case, pkg-config is useless. pkg-config is needed only when
libraries and headers are installed in non-default locations but
it is bad to require installation of pkg-config on all the machines
where make menuconfig would be possibly run."
For {menu,n}config, do not use pkg-config if it is not installed.
For {g,x}config, keep checking pkg-config since we really rely on it
for finding the installation paths of the required packages.
Fixes: 4ab3b80159d4 ("kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/process')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/process/changes.rst | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/process/changes.rst b/Documentation/process/changes.rst index 61f918b10a0c..d1bf143b446f 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/changes.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/changes.rst @@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ pkg-config The build system, as of 4.18, requires pkg-config to check for installed kconfig tools and to determine flags settings for use in -'make {menu,n,g,x}config'. Previously pkg-config was being used but not +'make {g,x}config'. Previously pkg-config was being used but not verified or documented. Flex |