On Friday 09 April 2004 04:05 pm, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > On Friday 09 April 2004 5:51 pm, Richard Harke wrote: > > In working on other problems, I thought it might help > > to have a more up-to-date kernel. Thus I installed the > > source for 2.4.25 and after make mrproper, I tried > > make menuconfig > > I got an error message about ncurses and lxdialog > > AFAICT, I don't have any extra ncurses laying around > > and what I have was installed using apt-get, so versions > > should match. > > Hmm... I can't reproduce this. I unpacked the 2.4.25 source, > applied the ia64-040218 patch, did "make mrproper" and "make > menuconfig", and it worked fine. FWIW, I have: > > ii libncurses5 5.3.20030719-4 Shared libraries for terminal handling > ii libncurses5-de 5.3.20030719-4 Developer's libraries and docs for > ncurses ii libncursesw5 5.3.20030719-5 Shared libraries for terminal > handling (wide > > Can you be more specific about the errors? I can't find a date in any of the kernel-patches file names but the script is dated 040228 (I downloaded on Apr 3) My libncurses5, libncurses5-dev and libncursesw5 are all 5.4-3, Not sure of date but appears to be Mar 22
The error is a longish harangue from the menuconfig script based on getting a value of 139 back from lxdialog
