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authorMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2018-08-31 12:34:55 +0300
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2018-09-02 20:13:48 +0300
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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>
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@@ -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.
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