>From Steve Waterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 07:27:44AM -0500:
> apt-get install libncurses5-dev
>
> On Wednesday 25 September 2002 06:02, J.S.Sahambi wrote:
> > I tried "make menuconfig" with 2.4.29 and it says:
> > ***********************************************
> > jsahambi@ws97:~/kernel$ make menuconfig
> > rm -f include/asm
> > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> > make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jsahambi/kernel/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 `/home/jsahambi/kernel/scripts/lxdialog'
> > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
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FWIW - I had libncurses5-dev installed, and I was receiving an error
just like this. I think it happens whenever ncurses chokes on
something. In my case it didn't like being run under a Python wrapper
script. You may want to make sure you have a health ncurses and
lxdialog:
$ cd /usr/src/linux # your linux root directory
$ scripts/lxdialog/lxdialog --textbox ~/.bashrc 20 70
Substitute any text file for ~/.bashrc. If you see a scrolling text
window lxdialog and ncurses are healthy. Otherwise that's where you
start debugging. Eliminate all wrapper scripts from running "make
menuconfig". Try different terminals, including a plain tty without
X.
Hope that helps.
Steve
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