make menuconfig提示：fatal error curses.h No such file or directory

前段时间Ubuntu 18.04系统挂了，重装系统后，一直没有安装编译环境，记录下编译时遇到的一些问题。

1、问题描述

make menuconfig时报如下错误：

root@ubuntu:/home/run/code/linux-4.9.y# make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-xx-linux-gcc menuconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
<command-line>:0:12: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory    ## 错误位置
compilation terminated.
scripts/Makefile.host:124: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/mconf.o' failed
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/mconf.o] Error 1
Makefile:546: recipe for target 'menuconfig' failed
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

2、解决方法

安装软件包libncurses5-dev。

root@ubuntu:/home/run/code/linux-4.9.y# apt-get install libncurses5-dev 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
...
Setting up libtinfo-dev:amd64 (6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04) ...
Setting up libncurses5-dev:amd64 (6.1-1ubuntu1.18.04) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
root@ubuntu:/home/run/code/linux-4.9.y# 

重新执行make menuconfig，可以成功进入配置页面，如下：

root@ubuntu:/home/run/code/linux-4.9.y# make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-xx-linux-gcc menuconfig
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/mconf.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/util.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/inputbox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/textbox.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/yesno.o
  HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/menubox.o
  HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf
scripts/kconfig/mconf  Kconfig
 .config - Linux/arm 4.9.37 Kernel Configuration

3、注意事项

在嵌入式系统中，执行make menuconfig时，需要指定处理器架构ARCH和交叉编译工具链CROSS_COMPILE。