Re: Kernel Source Installation Probs...

[John Galt <galt@inconnu.isu.edu>]

Do you have ncurses-dev installed?  That output looks like what happened
to me when I forgot to install ncurses-dev before building my kernel with
menuconfig :(

On Mon, 3 May 1999, Brant Wells wrote:

> Howdy All:
> 
> How are ya?
> 
> Last night, I was working on installing the Kernel 2.2.3 Sources.  I
> unpack them and then run 'make menuconfig' and this is what I get...
> 
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog'
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
> -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
> In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
> dialog.h:22: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
> dialog.h:23: fcntl.h: No such file or directory
> dialog.h:24: unistd.h: No such file or directory
> dialog.h:25: ctype.h: No such file or directory
> dialog.h:26: stdlib.h: No such file or directory
> dialog.h:27: string.h: No such file or directory
> dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> lxdialog.c:53: locale.h: No such file or directory
> make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> 
> Heeeeelllp!
> 
> TIA,
> Brant
> 
> 
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