Martin McCormick wrote: > I went to modify a kernel build on a system I rebuilt last >Summer. When I gave the command > >make menuconfig > >I got the following error message: > >/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses >collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > >>>Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. >>> >>>You must install ncurses-devel in order >>>to use 'make menuconfig' >>> >>> > > I used apt-get to try to find a package with that name to no >avail. I also looked at all the curses libraries in dselect and did >not find ncurses-devel so I am trying to figure out how I goofed. > > The system has no X on it, but I use vt100 applications on it >all the time with no complaints. It might be that I damaged something >when restoring from backups after the rebuild. The system works >amazingly well to be missing something so important.:-) > > Thanks for any ideas. It makes me wonder what else isn't >working because of the missing libraries. > >Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK >OSU Information Technology Division Network Operations Group > >
You need the "libncurses5-dev" package. -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
