Re: cannot start "make menuconfig"

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 13 Oct, Bruno Van de Casteele wrote about "cannot start "make menuconfig""
> Hi,
> 
> i cannot start menconfig for compiling my kernel. I have the 2.2.10 one on a
> stable, with some unstable packages.
> copy of errors:
> In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
> dialog.h:29: cursus.h: No such file or directory
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> what could be the problem?
> 

% dpkg -S curses.h
libncurses4-dev: /usr/include/curses.h
libncurses4-dev: /usr/include/ncurses.h
slang1-dev: /usr/include/slcurses.h


You don't have the libncurses4-dev package installed. This contains the
ncurses4 header files that are needed to build the menuconfig console
interface.


Brian Servis
-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mechanical Engineering              |  Never criticize anybody until you  
Purdue University                   |  have walked a mile in their shoes,
servis@purdue.edu                   |  because by that time you will be a
http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis   |  mile away and have their shoes.