Re: menuconfig & xconfig
You need libncurses5-dev installed to compile the ncurses-based
configuration program.
Nick
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Charles R. Twardy wrote:
> With the newest benh (2.4.20) I am unable to run "make xconfig" or "make
> menuconfig". This is a problem.
>
> "make menuconfig" says I must have ncurses. But I do. apt-get reports
> ncurses-base, ncurses-bin, and libncurses5 are up-to-date.
>
> "make xconfig" complains about something in drivers/video/Config.in.
>
> The error messages are below. I'd love some help here. I'm running 2.4.19
> now and can't run MOL because all the MOL modules are compiled against my
> benh tree, which is now 2.4.20.
>
> -Charles
>
>
>
> amelia:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-ppc asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/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/benh_kernel/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
>
>
> ............................................
>
>
> amelia:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-ppc asm)
> make -C scripts kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/scripts'
> cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk
> ./tkparse < ../arch/ppc/config.in >> kconfig.tk
> drivers/video/Config.in: 216: can't handle dep_bool/dep_mbool/dep_tristate
> condition
> make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/scripts'
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
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