Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

["Salman Ahmed" <ssahmed@pathcom.com>]

>>>>> "KW" == Kent West <westk@acu.edu> writes:
    KW>  I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make
    KW> menuconfig".  When I try, I get the following:
    KW> 
    KW> westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd
    KW> include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all
    KW> make[1]: Entering directory
    KW> `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall
    KW> -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
    KW> -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>" -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o In file
    KW> included from lxdialog.c:22: dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file
    KW> or directory make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving
    KW> directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdialog' make:
    KW> *** [menuconfig] Error 2 westk03:/usr/src/linux# exit exit
    KW> 
    KW> 
    KW> Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks!

Looks like you haven't installed the ncurses development package. For
potato, its called libncurses4-dev. Not sure what it is for slink, but
you need a similar dev(elopment) package for slink, if that is what you
are running.

You might want to check out the debian package search page:

  http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages

HTH,

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Salman Ahmed
ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com