Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 20 Nov, Kent West wrote about "Can't "make menuconfig""
> I can "make config" and "make xconfig" but I can not "make menuconfig".
> When I try, I get the following:
> 
> westk03:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory
> `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdialog'
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE 
> -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
> In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
> dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.1/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> westk03:/usr/src/linux# exit
> exit
> 
> 
> Can anyone suggest a fix? Thanks!
> 
> 

apt-get install libncurses4-dev


Brian Servis
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