Re: [PATCH] ncurses based config

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Wed Sep 03 2008 - 15:42:28 EST



Hi,

On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Nir Tzachar wrote:
> This patch was inspired by the kernel projects page, where an ncurses
> replacement for menuconfig was mentioned (by Sam Ravnborg).
>
> Building on menuconfig, this patch implements a more modern look interface using
> ncurses and ncurses' satellite libraries (menu, panel, form). The implementation
> does not depend on lxdialog, which is currently distributed with the kernel.
>
> The only change outside of nconf.c is due to a name clash: both ncurses and
> lkc.h define a fucntion named menu_init(). I changed the internal version's
> name.
>
> Please consider the patch for merging. Comments are appreciated.

Could you please tell what kernel version is it against?

I'm getting the following error on make nconfig (and also on make menuconfig
which works fine without this patch) with the current Linus' tree:

HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/conf.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/kxgettext.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/nconf.o
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c: In function âconf_parseâ:
scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c:2258: warning: implicit declaration of function âmenu_initâ
HOSTLD scripts/kconfig/nconf
scripts/kconfig/nconf arch/x86/Kconfig
make[1]: *** [nconfig] Segmentation fault
make: *** [nconfig] Error 2
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