I've been jailed by `make menuconfig'

[Harald Becker]

 Hi!
>> I was trying to install LTIB into a Fedora 14 x86_64 box and selected
>> the option to configure busybox, but once when I got the configuration
>> menu and selected the 'Coreutils' or 'Networking Utilities' submenu, I
>> was stuck. I couldn't do anything in those two submenus, i.e. I
>> couldn't select/de-select the options, couldn't 'Exit' (Esc also
>> didn't work) and even 'Help'.
>>
>> I thought that might be problem caused by LTIB, so I downloaded
>> busybox-1.18.3 and tried `make menuconfig', same thing happened again.
>>
>> This is weird to me because only those two submenus didn't work, other
>> worked fine. What could be the problem?
> It's how https://bugs.busybox.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2863 manifests itself.
> Fixed in master:
> http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=5a746dcec5c1e09c3cff0326c3b205d2427861f0
> Guess it should go to 1.18 as well.
This fix made my problem with menuconfig to vanish too.

... thx a lot, saved me a lot of time, as I just started to search for
the reason of that problem ... but why the hell, dit this not happen on
my previous machines setup?

Same busybox source/configuration, only differences in gcc/glibc/ncurses
versions and in it's running on a different CPU (was AMD family 10, now
Intel Celeron P4 based, both x86 mode) ... makes me a bit confusing
about how that differences may influence the buffer requirements?

--
Harald