Re: make menuconfig says I don't have ncurses
--- Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> escribió: > 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!
>
Point taken. I seem to recall that as a Boy Scout I experienced much joy
at sending the new scouts out for things like a left-handed smoke shifter,
a four-legged tripod, or a bacon stretcher. Ah, those were the days. :-)
-Roberto
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