You need libncurses5-dev installed to compile the ncurses-based configuration program.
Nick On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Charles R. Twardy wrote: > With the newest benh (2.4.20) I am unable to run "make xconfig" or "make > menuconfig". This is a problem. > > "make menuconfig" says I must have ncurses. But I do. apt-get reports > ncurses-base, ncurses-bin, and libncurses5 are up-to-date. > > "make xconfig" complains about something in drivers/video/Config.in. > > The error messages are below. I'd love some help here. I'm running 2.4.19 > now and can't run MOL because all the MOL modules are compiled against my > benh tree, which is now 2.4.20. > > -Charles > > > > amelia:/usr/src/linux# make menuconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-ppc asm) > make -C scripts/lxdialog all > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/scripts/lxdialog' > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > >> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries. > >> > >> You must have Ncurses installed in order > >> to use 'make menuconfig' > > make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/scripts/lxdialog' > make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2 > > > ............................................ > > > amelia:/usr/src/linux# make xconfig > rm -f include/asm > ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-ppc asm) > make -C scripts kconfig.tk > make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/scripts' > cat header.tk >> ./kconfig.tk > ./tkparse < ../arch/ppc/config.in >> kconfig.tk > drivers/video/Config.in: 216: can't handle dep_bool/dep_mbool/dep_tristate > condition > make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/benh_kernel/scripts' > make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
