Thanks, all I already have sys-libs/ncurses installed on my gentoo, and, the real problem is: the Linux kernel source-tree's owner is root, and I ran make menuconfig as my normal user. a silly mistake.
thanks anyway On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:52 AM, Douglas Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Du Zhongdong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi, all. >> >> I've setup gentoo on my Vmware, everything's ok. >> Now I want to re-check my kernel config, >> >> #cd /usr/src/linux >> [Wed Dec 03, 11:38 AM] axdu@ linux$ 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 >> >> I try to emerge ncurses-devel but emerge says: >> [Wed Dec 03, 11:40 AM] axdu@ linux$ sudo emerge ncurses-devel >> Calculating dependencies | >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "ncurses-devel". >> >> what's the problem with ncurses-devel? if there's no such thing in >> GENTOO_MIRRORS, where can I download the source? >> >> thanks in advance >> > > That message is a menuconfig error, it's not from gentoo, which is why > the name is different. You just need to install sys-libs/ncurses. > >
