1 scripts/kconfig/mconf.c: In function ‘exec_conf’: 2 scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:481:2: warning: ignoring return value of ‘pipe’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Wunused-result] 3   pipe(pipefd); 4   ^ 5   SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.c 6   SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/lex.zconf.c 7   SHIPPED scripts/kconfig/zconf.hash.c 8   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/zconf.tab.o 9   HOSTLD  scripts/kconfig/mconf10   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o11 In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:0:12 scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:31:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory13  #include CURSES_LOC14                     ^15 compilation terminated.16 scripts/Makefile.host:120: recipe for target 'scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o' failed17 make[2]: *** [scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o] Error 118 /home/licg/linux_shared/tools/busybox-1.24.1/scripts/kconfig/Makefile:14: recipe for target 'menuconfig' failed19 make[1]: *** [menuconfig] Error 220 Makefile:443: recipe for target 'menuconfig' failed21 make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

原因：出现该错误的原因是在使用menuconfig时，需要ncurses库的支持。

解决办法：sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

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