Re: Problem with lxdialog (make menuconfig) and ncurses

[Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>]

Hello

Vincent Lefevre (<vincent@vinc17.org>) wrote:

> I wanted to compile a kernel, but when doing "make menuconfig", I got:
> 
> There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which
> is
> built prior to running Menuconfig.  Usually this is an indicator that
> you have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove
> the old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/include or
> /usr/include/ncurses.
> 
> It is VERY important that you have only one set of ncurses header
> files and that those files are properly version matched to the ncurses
> libraries installed on your machine.
> [...]
> 
> What is this problem?
> 
> I have:
> 
> greux:~> lg /usr/include/ncurses*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1        8 2003-11-20 15:41:09 /usr/include/ncurses.h ->
> curses.h
> -rw-r--r--    1     1559 2003-11-07 20:26:36
> /usr/include/ncurses_dll.h
> 
> from libncurses5-dev (unstable). Isn't it correct?

Check if the ncurses and ncurses-dev packages have the same version
number.

best regards
        Andreas Janssen


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