kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}config

Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression:
"I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system
location (as do 99%+ o

kconfig: do not require pkg-config on make {menu,n}config

Meelis Roos reported a {menu,n}config regression:
"I have libncurses devel package installed in the default system
location (as do 99%+ on actual developers probably) and in this
case, pkg-config is useless. pkg-config is needed only when
libraries and headers are installed in non-default locations but
it is bad to require installation of pkg-config on all the machines
where make menuconfig would be possibly run."

For {menu,n}config, do not use pkg-config if it is not installed.
For {g,x}config, keep checking pkg-config since we really rely on it
for finding the installation paths of the required packages.

Fixes: 4ab3b80159d4 ("kconfig: check for pkg-config on make {menu,n,g,x}config")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>

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Merge tag 'v4.18-rc2' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux into fbdev-for-next

Linux 4.18-rc2

Merge tag 'v4.18-rc2' into next-general

Merge to Linux 4.18-rc2 for security subsystem developers.

Merge branch 'linus' into x86/urgent

Required to queue a dependent fix.

Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"Kconfig now supports new functionality to perform textu

Merge tag 'kconfig-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild

Pull Kconfig updates from Masahiro Yamada:
"Kconfig now supports new functionality to perform textual
substitution. It has been a while since Linus suggested to move
compiler option tests from makefiles to Kconfig. Finally, here it is.

The implementation has been generalized into a Make-like macro
language.

Some built-in functions such as 'shell' are provided. Variables and
user-defined functions are also supported so that 'cc-option',
'ld-option', etc. are implemented as macros.

Summary:

- refactor package checks for building {m,n,q,g}conf

- remove unused/unmaintained localization support

- remove Kbuild cache

- drop CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE support

- replace 'option env=' with direct variable expansion

- add built-in functions such as 'shell'

- support variables and user-defined functions

- add helper macros as as 'cc-option'

- add unit tests and a document of the new macro language

- add 'testconfig' to help

- fix warnings from GCC 8.1"

* tag 'kconfig-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (30 commits)
kconfig: Avoid format overflow warning from GCC 8.1
kbuild: Move last word of nconfig help to the previous line
kconfig: Add testconfig into make help output
kconfig: add basic helper macros to scripts/Kconfig.include
kconfig: show compiler version text in the top comment
kconfig: test: add Kconfig macro language tests
Documentation: kconfig: document a new Kconfig macro language
kconfig: error out if a recursive variable references itself
kconfig: add 'filename' and 'lineno' built-in variables
kconfig: add 'info', 'warning-if', and 'error-if' built-in functions
kconfig: expand lefthand side of assignment statement
kconfig: support append assignment operator
kconfig: support simply expanded variable
kconfig: support user-defined function and recursively expanded variable
kconfig: begin PARAM state only when seeing a command keyword
kconfig: replace $(UNAME_RELEASE) with function call
kconfig: add 'shell' built-in function
kconfig: add built-in function support
kconfig: make default prompt of mainmenu less specific
kconfig: remove sym_expand_string_value()
...

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kconfig: refactor Qt package checks for building qconf

Currently, the necessary package checks for building qconf is
surrounded by ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),xconfig) ... endif.
Then, Make will restart w

kconfig: refactor Qt package checks for building qconf

Currently, the necessary package checks for building qconf is
surrounded by ifeq ($(MAKECMDGOALS),xconfig) ... endif.
Then, Make will restart when .tmp_qtcheck is generated.

To simplify the Makefile, move the scripting to a separate file,
and use filechk. The shell script is executed everytime xconfig
is run, but it is not a costly script.

In the old code, 'pkg-config --exists' only checked Qt5Core / QtCore,
but the set of necessary packages should be checked.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

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