No such file or directory: lxdialog/dialog.h

[Tom Rini]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 08:19:24PM -0500, Nick Carraway wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> Apologies to bother y'all with this. I am at wit's end. I think this
> is an issue that I've encountered before and figured out how to solve,
> but I can't for the life of me figure out what to do this time around.
> 
> Whenever I try to `make O=../generic-build menuconfig` from my u-boot
> build directory, I get this error:
> 
> "Error: No such file or directory: lxdialog/dialog.h" in line 22 the
> file scripts/kconfig/mconf.c. It's one of the first parts of the
> menuconfig issues.
> 
> This error occurs on Debian bullseye and Debian buster! And I'm pretty
> sure it was working before, because I have successful builds from the
> 2021-10-rc5. But even when I git rollback to that one, I still get the
> error. I thought it was my build environment until I switched machines
> and got the same result! Both machines run arm64 - is that the issue??
> 
> I went into the library paths. One of the machines has a "dialog.h"
> header, but it's not in the "lxdialog/dialog.h" header. How do I get
> this library?? I'm so confused.
> 
> Bullseye and buster both have libncurses5 and 6, w5, and w6, but
> nothing beyond that. I say this because this is what most search
> engines seem to hint that the problem is. I think this is not really a
> dependency error though, and something else is going on. I really just
> don't know what the problem is because this code was working about a
> year ago and nothing on the machine changed, but now I can't figure
> out what I did to make it work!

I have a feeling there's something funny going on with your system, but,
a "V=1" passed to make will at least start showing you what/where gcc is
looking.

-- 
Tom
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