Re: making a new kernel

[Jayson Garrell <jgarrell@applebyco.com>]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 16:28, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade to a recent kernel, and I'm running into an odd
> problem.
> 
> When I try to run 'make xconfig' I receive this output:
> 
> 
> ganesha:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts'
> cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set defaults \"arch/i386/defconfig\"" >> kconfig.tk
> echo "set ARCH \"i386\"" >> kconfig.tk
> cat tail.tk >> kconfig.tk
> chmod 755 kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts'
> wish -f scripts/kconfig.tk
> make: wish: Command not found
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 127
> ganesha:/usr/src/linux# 
> 
> "wish"?
> 
> When I try 'make menuconfig' I receive this output:
> 
> ganesha:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog'
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
> >>
> >> You must have Ncurses installed in order
> >> to use 'make menuconfig'
> 
> make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.20/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> ganesha:/usr/src/linux# 
> 
> However, dselect says ncurses-bin is indeed installed.  Can anyone
> suggest what I might fix or do to correct this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Bret

 'wish' is provided by some tk package, I can't remember which one but
installing say tkdiff will install it. To get menuconfig working install
'libncurses5-dev'
-- 
Jayson Garrell <jgarrell@applebyco.com>
Appleby & Company Inc.