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gregkh

Greg K-H

When you attempt to rebuild the Fairphone 3 kernel on a modern distro (i.e. Arch) and you get a very odd failure when building the kernel modules, install the `aur/ncurses5-compat-libs` package and then all will work properly.

Took me forever to try to figure out what was wrong with the kernel code itself, should have realized it was the host system issue instead. Hermetic Android builds must have come later in the Android release cycle.
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z3ntu@fosstodon.org

Luca Weiss

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@gregkh I do all my Android development on Arch Linux, but yes I needed to also install ncurses5-compat-libs on the first day with my laptop. Hope it's smooth from here!

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gregkh

Greg K-H

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@z3ntu That's good to know.

Everything built fine after that, I'll start looking into the things we talked about last week after I catch up on my huge pending-review queue that I need to dig out from...
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