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authorAlyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>2019-11-05 16:07:36 +0100
committerMasahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>2019-11-11 12:10:01 +0100
commit46b2afa6890d0ffd234741deea2e24ee222a827f (patch)
tree406e26f9cd4c71c570d6e3ce34a6bfb6d4e00346 /scripts
parentkconfig: Add option to get the full help text with listnewconfig (diff)
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kconfig: be more helpful if pkg-config is missing
If ncurses is installed, but at a non-default location, the previous error message was not helpful in resolving the situation. Now it will suggest that pkg-config might need to be installed in addition to ncurses. Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh3
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh b/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
index c812872d7f9d..aa68ec95620d 100755
--- a/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh
@@ -44,4 +44,7 @@ echo >&2 "* Unable to find the ncurses package."
echo >&2 "* Install ncurses (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev"
echo >&2 "* depending on your distribution)."
echo >&2 "*"
+echo >&2 "* You may also need to install pkg-config to find the"
+echo >&2 "* ncurses installed in a non-default location."
+echo >&2 "*"
exit 1
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh b/scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh
index 001559ef0a60..c212255070c0 100755
--- a/scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh
@@ -44,4 +44,7 @@ echo >&2 "* Unable to find the ncurses package."
echo >&2 "* Install ncurses (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev"
echo >&2 "* depending on your distribution)."
echo >&2 "*"
+echo >&2 "* You may also need to install pkg-config to find the"
+echo >&2 "* ncurses installed in a non-default location."
+echo >&2 "*"
exit 1