Re: make menuconfig (potato)

[Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>]

On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 01:55:37PM -0500, Brad wrote:
> On Sat, 29 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote:
> 
> > Hello! 
> > I have uppgraded from slink to potato (I now understand the word
> > unstable=)
> > And downloaded kernel 2.2.9. But when I type menuconfig I have got
> > following
> > error mess.
> > 
> > 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:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog'
> > 
> > from what I understand it can not find dialog.h and curses.h!
> 
> The error message actually says that dialog.h is looking for curses.h and
> can't find it. Do you have the libncurses4-dev package installed?

I have a related question:

Why are the menuconfig boxes now shown with ascii characters (*, |,
etc.) instead of real lines as in earlier versions? 

Bob

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