Re: tlug: kernel problem

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Eric S. Standlee wrote:

> on 'make clean all' in the lxdialog dir:
> 
> [root@example.com lxdialog]# make clean all
> rm -f core *.o *~ lxdialog
> gcc -O2 -Wall -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE  -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"
> -c lxdialog.c -o lxdialog.o
> In file included from lxdialog.c:22:
> dialog.h:29: curses.h: No such file or directory
> make: *** [lxdialog.o] Error 1
> 
> Is that alright?
> 
> If I go to no modules, will that make my kernel horribly big?
> 
> As always, thanks for the help.

You probably should just do 'ln -s ncurses/curses.h /usr/include/curses.h'
and try again.

On TL, at least on the 2.1.0 beta, the ncurses-devel package sets this
symbolic link.  I believe it's similar for RH.

> 
> Eric S. Standlee
> Kashihara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan
> e-w.standlee@example.com
> fwiw3980@example.com <default>
> 
> On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Karl-Max Wagner wrote:
> 
> > > 2) Also, I tried to "make menuconfig" a 2.0.35 kernel which I d/l'd off of
> > > PHT (not blaming them) from their sunsite mirror, but it said that it
> > > couldn't find 'curses.h'.  How is it that the 2.0.34 kernel menuconfig
> > > could, but 2.0.35 couldn't find this?
> > 
> > Obvious. Apparently the library makeup differs between RH and
> > PHT. Enter the directory "/usr/src/linux/scripts/lxdialog" and
> > do a "make clean all". That should fix it.
> > 
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