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.
This patch fixes a silly typo conflating RPM-based systems with Debian
derivatives and adds the name of the Debian package to install.
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 09:54:44.000000000 -0400
+++ b/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile 2005-07-04 11:50:00.000000000 -0400
@@ -35,8 +35,11 @@
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 ">> distribution you should install the ncurses-devel" ;\
+ echo ">> Debian users will probably want to install the
+ echo ">> libncurses5-dev package." ;\
echo ;\
exit 1 ;\
fi
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