*- On 6 Jul, G. Crimp wrote about "make menuconfig" > Hi, > > I tried doing a make menuconfig instead of make config to configure > the kernel. Very near the beginning it craps out because of a missing > curses.h file. (This is a Deb 2.0 box by the way, kernel 2.0.34) The make > script cd's to /usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog. curses.h is an include in > lxdialog.c: > > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory /usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.34/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > > Did a find on the entire file system and it didn't turn up anywhere. > > Any idea why I wouldn't have it on my system ? >
You need the ncurses devel package, ncurses3.4-dev_1.9.9g-8.10.deb. It is in the devel directory of the 2.0 archive. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------