Re: Dependency problem got me stumped....
>
> I want to compile the kernel-29 or kernel-30 source and I want to be able
> to use "make menuconfig". The problem is:
>
> kernel-source-2.0.29 suggests ncurses-dev (for menuconfig)
> kernel-source-2.0.29 recommends gcc
> ncurses-dev depends on libc5-dev
> gcc conflicts with libc5-dev
You must be getting packages from unstable. Unstable gcc is configured to
work with libc6, hence it conflicts with libc5-dev. in order to compile with
libc5 while using unstable, you need to get altgcc, libc5-altdev and other
relevant altdev packages (ncurses3-altdev in this case). However, you can
just get the ncurses3.4-dev which is compiled with libc6 and you would not
need to use any of alt* packages. Unfortunately, ncurses3.4-dev is still
stuck in the Incoming, I think.
>
> Now, I suppose that I *could* install the kernel and ncurses to *configure*
> and then remove ncurses and then install gcc to compile, but this is, as an
> associate likes to say, "functional, yet dysfunctional".
That wouldn't work, because you need to compile the menuconfig front end.
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