make menuconfig can't find -lncurses and fix

[Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@mindspring.com>]

Hello:

Trying to solve my printing problem, I want to redo my kernel messing with
the CONFIG_PARPORT stuff, but when I 'make menuconfig' I was getting:

make[1]: Entering directory
`/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/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'

and it bailed.  I _do_ have ncurses installed, of course.  Installing
libncurses5-dev fixed the problem.

FYI (Everybody probably knows this already, but just in case.)

Patrick

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Patrick Wiseman
pwiseman@mindspring.com
Linux user #17943