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/mconf
10   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
11 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 directory
13  #include CURSES_LOC
14                     ^
15 compilation terminated.
16 scripts/Makefile.host:120: recipe for target ‘scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o‘ failed
17 make[2]: *** [scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o] Error 1
18 /home/licg/linux_shared/tools/busybox-1.24.1/scripts/kconfig/Makefile:14: recipe for target ‘menuconfig‘ failed
19 make[1]: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
20 Makefile:443: recipe for target ‘menuconfig‘ failed
21 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

详细参考：

Linux Error: curses.h: No such file or directory Problem Solution