Unable to find the Ncurses libraries

[Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org>]

I hate using up my kernel building help chips for this, but...

moseley@bumby:/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-2.4.17/scripts/lxdialog'
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
>>
>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>> to use 'make menuconfig'

make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.17/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2


moseley@bumby:/usr/src/linux$ ll /lib/libncur*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Feb 21 21:18
/lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.2
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       248132 Feb 19 14:32 /lib/libncurses.so.5.2


-- 
Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@hank.org