Re: ncurses

[Peter Hicks <Peter.Hicks@POGGS.CO.UK>]

Shawn Boyette wrote:

> You have the ncurses runtime libs installed, but not the development
> headers needed to compile a curses program, which is what menuconfig
> is. Install libncurses5-dev and everything should be fine.

I have the ncurses headers installed:

   archway:/usr/src/linux-2.4.23# apt-get install libncurses5-dev
   Reading Package Lists... Done
   Building Dependency Tree... Done
   libncurses5-dev is already the newest version.
   0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

The error when running 'make menuconfig' is as follows:

   archway:/usr/src/linux-2.4.23# make menuconfig
   rm -f include/asm
   ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-sparc64 asm)
   make -C scripts/lxdialog all
   make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.23/scripts/lxdialog'
   /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/3.3.3/../../../libncurses.so when searching 
for -lncurses
   /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible 
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-linux/3.3.3/../../../libncurses.a when searching 
for -lncurses
   /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libncurses.so 
when searching for -lncurses
   /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/bin/../lib/libncurses.a when 
searching for -lncurses
   /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libncurses.so when 
searching for -lncurses
   /usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/lib/libncurses.a when 
searching for -lncurses
   /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-2.4.23/scripts/lxdialog'
   make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

The libraries and headers are there, but the symlinks appear mangled, 
and I'm not entirely sure how to fix it.

Best wishes,


Peter.