Linux kernel development work - see feature branches https://git.zx2c4.com/linux-dev/atom/scripts/kconfig/check-pkgconfig.sh?h=master 2018-09-02T17:13:48Z 2018-09-02T17:13:48Z Masahiro Yamada yamada.masahiro@socionext.com 2018-08-31T09:34:55Z urn:sha1:fd65465b7016dc6d9fa5c2f39cc706c231c9a089 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> 2018-07-17T16:18:09Z Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org 2018-06-28T23:39:50Z urn:sha1:4ab3b80159d4db63b902ef635d4b5e882911b2da Each of 'make {menu,n,g,x}config' uses (needs) pkg-config to make sure that other required files are present and to determine build flags settings, but none of these check that pkg-config itself is present. Add a check for all 4 of these targets and update Documentation/process/changes.rst to mention 'pkg-config'. Fixes kernel bugzilla #77511: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77511 Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>