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 -- /) David Weinehall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> /) Northern lights wander (\ // Maintainer of the v2.0 kernel // Dance across the winter sky // \) http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ (/ Full colour fire (/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
