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 > unless you choose to do so via 'make menuconfig'. From the > > kernel-package README: > > Before you go any further, please allow me to point out that you need to > > have a few other packages installed before you can compile your own > > kernels (it is difficult to compile anything without a compiler ;-). > > > > Firstly, you will need gcc, the libc development package (libc5-dev or > > libc6-dev at the time of writing), and, on Intel platforms, bin86. [If > > you use the menuconfig target of make, you will need ncursesX.X-dev, > > and make xconfig also requires either tkX.X-dev for 2.4.X kernels, or > > libqt3-mt-dev and g++ >= 3.0 for the new 2.6 kernel versions, and 2.6.X > > kernels also have an additional option, make gconfig, which requires > > libglade2-dev, and other packages these depend on] > > > > > > Randy > > Celejar
Obviously I needed to have read the README a little more closely than I had!! They couldn't have written that any more clearly. Thanks, Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]