On 2010-07-24 22:26 +0200, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. Lenny, up to date with security and backports. > > I pulled down 2.6.35-rc6.tar.bz2 from kernel.org, and would like to > try compiling it to see what's Coming Soon To A Disto Near Me. > > Its been about 9 years since the last time I compiled a kernel, but > I'm having trouble I didn't have then. For some reason, none of > the "make" things that I've used in the past are working now:
This is due to missing development packages. > =========== > $ make xconfig > CHECK qt > * > * Unable to find the QT3 installation. Please make sure that > * the QT3 development package is correctly installed and > * either install pkg-config or set the QTDIR environment > * variable to the correct location. > * > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/kconfig/.tmp_qtcheck', > needed by `scripts/kconfig/qconf.o'. Stop. > make: *** [xconfig] Error 2 > =========== This target needs the libqt3-mt-dev package (and possibly others). > =========== > $ make menuconfig > *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the > *** required header files. > *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries. > *** > *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again. > *** > make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1 > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > =========== This target needs libncurses5-dev. > =========== > $ make gconfig > * > * Unable to find the GTK+ installation. Please make sure that > * the GTK+ 2.0 development package is correctly installed... > * You need gtk+-2.0, glib-2.0 and libglade-2.0. > * > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/kconfig/.tmp_gtkcheck', > needed by `scripts/kconfig/gconf.o'. Stop. > make: *** [gconfig] Error 2 > =========== This target needs libglade2-dev (and possibly other packages). > "make config" did work, but working through everything in text is > enough to make a sane person INSANE. Yes, this is only for people who are or want to become crazy. > I was surprised with the failure of menuconfig, since I have all of > ncurses installed and the "ncurses-devel" suggestion isn't a Debian > package name anyway. The -devel namespace comes from Red Hat based distributions, in Debian development packages always end in -dev and very often begin with "lib". > Suggestions? Install libncurses5-dev and use "make menuconfig" or "make nconfig" (the latter is new in 2.6.35). Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bp9wegr3....@turtle.gmx.de
