[ale] make menuconfig can't find curse.h

[J. Reeves Hall]

Perhaps you don't have the ncurses library installed?

-Reeves

"Gary S. Mackay" wrote:

> Please, please, please let me know if you find the answer. I get the same
> thing!!
>
> smnoldelinux at mediaone.net wrote:
> >
> > I get this output when I try to run 'make menuconfig':
> > rm -f include/asm
> > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> > make -j 9 -C scripts/lxdialog all
> > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.12-smn/scripts/lxdialog'
> > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
> > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
> > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
> > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c checklist.c -o checklist.o
> > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
> > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c menubox.c -o menubox.o
> > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
> > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c textbox.c -o textbox.o
> > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
> > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c yesno.c -o yesno.o
> > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
> > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c inputbox.c -o inputbox.o
> > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
> > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c util.c -o util.o
> > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE
> > -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"   -c msgbox.c -o msgbox.o
> > In file includedIn file included from lxdialog.c:22:
> > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
> > In file included from checklist.c:24:
> > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [checklist.o] Error 1
> > In file included from menubox.c:59:
> > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> > make[1]: *** [menubox.o] Error 1
> > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> > [root at smnolde linux-2.2.12-smn]#  from textbox.c:22:
> > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> > In file includedIn file included from yesno.c:22:
> > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> > In file included from inputbox.c:22:
> > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> >  from util.c:22:
> > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> > In file included from msgbox.c:22:
> > dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> >
> > Anyone know what rpm package contains this?  I've copied the
> > /usr/src/linux-2.2.12-20 directory into /usr/src/linux-2.2.12-smn and
> > compiled a kernel last night using xconfig.  And xconfig won't work now
> > either.
> >
> > Clues?
> > - Scott
>
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