Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:45:40 -0600 "Randy Patterson - [Tech]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2007 02:41:48 pm Celejar wrote: > > > Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file > > > that explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
On Thursday 08 November 2007 02:41:48 pm Celejar wrote: > > Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file > > that explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed > > dependency. > > It isn't needed for building the kernel, or even for configuring it > unle

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:22:16 -0600 "Randy Patterson - [Tech]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:52:35 am Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Randy Patterson - [Tech]: > > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24: > > > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20:

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread zecrazytux
Hi, scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory > Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file that > explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed dependency. Next time, you would try to find the needed

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:52:35 am Jochen Schulz wrote: > Randy Patterson - [Tech]: > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24: > > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or > > directory > > Your system is missing libncurses5-dev. > > J.

Re: Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Jochen Schulz
Randy Patterson - [Tech]: > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24: > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or > directory Your system is missing libncurses5-dev. J. -- I enjoy shopping, eating, sex and doing jigsaw puzzles of idealised

Problem building Linux Kernel

2007-11-08 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, I'm running Debian/Lenny which I update weekly. I downloaded the Linux source version 2.6.23.1 from the kernel.org site and uncompressed the file all with no problem. The next step was to create the configuration which I did by running; make defconfig This ran again without a problem. I