However, when I try to configure a virgin uClibc tree, I get many errors linking "mconf", which cite undefined symbols that are obviously from ncurses.
It appears the linker works left-to-right and decides when a library is needed or not at the moment it appears. Your Makefile puts "-lncurses" before any object files, so the linker never sees an ncurses symbol reference until it is too late.
This problem apparently would also occur with a static libncurses -- hence most other projects are careful to put all "-l" options at the end of the linker invocation.
I've attached a patch that moves the library options to the end of the line, allowing "make menuconfig" to work on my system.
uClibc-0.9.29-conffix.diff [^] (934 bytes) 01-04-08 01:10 
