A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > I just reinstalled debian and used the dialup profile. I'm trying to > compile kernel v2.2.13, and getting the following error when I do make > menuconfig: > > d-bm6-17:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts/lxdialog' > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>" -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o > In file included from lxdialog.c:22: > dialog.h:22: sys/types.h: No such file or directory > dialog.h:23: fcntl.h: No such file or directory > dialog.h:24: unistd.h: No such file or directory > dialog.h:25: ctype.h: No such file or directory > dialog.h:26: stdlib.h: No such file or directory > dialog.h:27: string.h: No such file or directory > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory > lxdialog.c:53: locale.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.13/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > > > I'm having difficulty figuring out what packages I need to install to make > this work.
You need to install these packages: libc6-dev ncurses3.4-dev They aren't strictly needed to compile the kernel, but the kernel does include a menu-driven configuration program which needs to be compiled, and you're missing the needed headers to compile that program. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
