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


Kurt
-- 
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any time!"


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