Re: ncurses

[Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>]

> Heh, thanks - menuconfig works now.  Are there any downsides to 
> disabling this whilst building a kernel image?

There are no downsides to disabling it forever.  It merely tells the
stupid gcc wrapper to not behave inconsistently and unexpectedly.  You
can achieve a similar effect by removing /usr/bin/gcc and replacing it
with a symlink to /usr/bin/gcc-3.3, which is what is done on every
other Debian architecture.

gcc's default behavior still allows you to compile 64-bit objects and
does not lead to inane and unexpected breakage such as you have just
experienced by using BenC's wrapper.