Re: Can't "make menuconfig"

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Salman Ahmed wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "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,
> 
> --
> Salman Ahmed
> ssahmed AT pathcom DOT com

Thanks for the help. I did have the ncurses dev installed, but a couple
of days ago I installed some little something (I don't remember what
now; maybe it was the gcd audio cd player) and then a day or two later I
discovered this problem. Go figure. At any rate, it works again now;
thanks!