Re: Can't menuconfig

[Richard Harke <rharke@earthlink.net>]

On Friday 09 April 2004 04:05 pm, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Friday 09 April 2004 5:51 pm, Richard Harke wrote:
> > In working on other problems, I thought it might help
> > to have a more up-to-date kernel. Thus I installed the
> > source for 2.4.25 and after make mrproper, I tried
> > make menuconfig
> > I got an error message about ncurses and lxdialog
> > AFAICT, I don't have any extra ncurses laying around
> > and what I have was installed using apt-get, so versions
> > should match.
>
> Hmm...  I can't reproduce this.  I unpacked the 2.4.25 source,
> applied the ia64-040218 patch, did "make mrproper" and "make
> menuconfig", and it worked fine.  FWIW, I have:
>
> ii  libncurses5    5.3.20030719-4 Shared libraries for terminal handling
> ii  libncurses5-de 5.3.20030719-4 Developer's libraries and docs for
> ncurses ii  libncursesw5   5.3.20030719-5 Shared libraries for terminal
> handling (wide
>
> Can you be more specific about the errors?
I can't find a date in any of the kernel-patches file names but
the script is dated 040228 (I downloaded on Apr 3)
My libncurses5, libncurses5-dev and libncursesw5 are all 5.4-3,
Not sure of date but appears to be Mar 22

The error is a longish harangue from the menuconfig script based on
getting a value of 139 back from lxdialog