Re: tlug: 2.2.14 Vs. TurboLinux

["Scott M. Stone" <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> We're experiencing an odd thing with trying to build a 2.2.14-RAID kernel
> on TurboLinux.  The same thing happens on both TL PRo 4.2 and 
> TL Server 1.0 -based systems.
> 
> These examples are from a TL 4.2 Pro system:
> 
> If you do make menuconfig, you get:
> 
> [root@example.com linux-2.2.14-RAID]# make menuconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts/lxdialog all
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14-RAID/scripts/lxdialog'
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14-RAID/scripts/lxdialog'
> /bin/sh scripts/Menuconfig arch/i386/config.in
> Using defaults found in .config
> Preparing scripts: functions, parsing......................................done.
> 
> And it just stops there and sits until you do a control-c.  Then you get:
> 
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1
> 
> 
> If you do make depend, you get:
> 
> [root@example.com linux-2.2.14-RAID]# make depend
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14-RAID/arch/i386/boot'
> make[1]: Nothing to be done for `dep'.
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.14-RAID/arch/i386/boot'
> scripts/mkdep init/*.c > .depend
> make: *** [dep-files] Error 139
> 
> But -- make xconfig works.
> 
> Does anybody know:
> 
> 1) What causes this;
> 2) A workaround;
> 3) What error 139 is?

educated guess - menuconfig uses ncurses, it could be something in the
ncurses-J that it doesn't like.

does 'make config' or 'make oldconfig' work?

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Scott M. Stone, CCNA <sstone@example.com>
UNIX Systems and Network Engineer
Taos - The SysAdmin Company 

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