Re: making a new kernel
On 26 Feb 2003, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> Thanks. libncurses-dev seems to have allowed 'make menuconfig'.
> Installing tk didn't get 'make xconfig' to work, but I didn't reboot or
> anything yet - just installed it.
>
> I've configured a kernel and I'm making it now. I need to see if I can
> get support for my NX70V Clie for USB syncing.
>
> Why wasn't ncurses workable without installing the 'dev' libraries? It
> seems like a bait-and-switch trick. What's the point of installing
> "ncurses" if that doesn't in fact get ncurses support? I would like to
> understand so I can decode other naming tricks...
>
the base ncurses is just the runtime, the -dev is all the development,
which is what the menuconfig stuff needs.
as for the tk issue, it was a half-assed stab in the dark that tk would
have wish in it, from looking at packages.debian.org. sorry it didn't
work out.
Mike
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