Re: Kernel Compile on Potato

[Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf@epkowa.co.jp>]

"deja luser" <dejaluser@hotmail.com> writes:

> Tonight I installed frozen on a k6-2 system, and am trying to compile a new 
> kernel for it, but make menuconfig fails. I have ncurses installed, and so I 
> should be able to run it

Not unless you also install libncurses5-dev.  The output says it can't
find curses.h which is in that package.  Install it and all should be
well.

> # 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-2.2.15/scripts/lxdialog'
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE  
> -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c -o lxdialog.o lxdialog.c
> 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-2.2.15/scripts/lxdialog'
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

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Olaf Meeuwissen       Epson Kowa Corporation, Research and Development