On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:57:00AM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses
> development libs, you get an error message telling you to install
> ncurses-devel. Some popular distributions don't have an ncurses-devel
> package. This patch generalizes the error message. Patch is against
> 2.6.12.
>
> MAINTAINERS doesn't list a maintainer for menuconfig or lxdialog,
> so I sent this to lkml, kbuild-devel, and to the kconfig maintainer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Wall <[email protected]>
>
>
> --- a/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile 2005-07-04 09:31:38.000000000 -0400
> +++ b/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile 2005-07-04 09:38:05.000000000 -0400
> @@ -35,8 +35,10 @@
> echo -e "\007" ;\
> echo ">> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries." ;\
> echo ">>" ;\
> - echo ">> You must install ncurses-devel in order" ;\
> - echo ">> to use 'make menuconfig'" ;\
> + echo ">> You must install ncurses development libraries" ;\
> + echo ">> to use 'make menuconfig'. If you have an RPM-based" ;\
> + echo ">> Debian-based distribution you should install the" ;\
> + echo ">> ncurses-devel package." ;\
> echo ;\
> exit 1 ;\
> fi
You know, I'd say that *very* few (approximately zero)
Debian-based distributions are RPM-based =) The Debian package is
called libncurses5-dev, btw.
Regards: David Weinehall
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