Re: make menuconfig says I don't have ncurses
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 23:25, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> --- Seneca <seneca-cunningham@rogers.com> escribió:
> > On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 05:25:01AM +0200, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> > > make[1]: Entering directory
> > `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.20/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'
> > [...]
>
> > You need to install libncurses5-dev.
> >
>
> Does that not make the error message a bit misleading? Shoudn't it say
> "You must have Ncurses _development_files_ installed in order...."?
But that would take away the joy of frustrating helpless newbies!
--
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
| Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: ron.l.johnson@cox.net |
| Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson |
| |
| Regarding war zones: "There's nothing sacrosanct about a |
| hotel with a bunch of journalists in it." |
| Marine Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor (Retired) |
+-----------------------------------------------------------+
Reply to: