Problem building Linux Kernel

Hi,

scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or
directory

> Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README
file that
> explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed
dependency.

Next time, you would try to find the needed package by using apt-file
search curses.h # replace of course curses.h by the name of the missing
file :)

seb

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 10:22:16 -0600
"Randy Patterson - [Tech]" wrote:

> On Thursday 08 November 2007 09:52:35 am Jochen Schulz wrote:
> > Randy Patterson - [Tech]:
> > > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
> > > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or
> > > directory
> >
> > Your system is missing libncurses5-dev.
> >
> > J.
>
> Thanks! Problem solved. Odd that the book I referred or the README file that
> explains the building process didn't mentioned that as a needed dependency.

It isn't needed for building the kernel, or even for configuring it
unless you choose to do so via 'make menuconfig'. From the
kernel-package README:

> Before you go any further, please allow me to point out that you need to
> have a few other packages installed before you can compile your own kernels
> (it is difficult to compile anything without a compiler ;-).
>
> Firstly, you will need gcc, the libc development package (libc5-dev or
> libc6-dev at the time of writing), and, on Intel platforms, bin86. [If
> you use the menuconfig target of make, you will need ncursesX.X-dev,
> and make xconfig also requires either tkX.X-dev for 2.4.X kernels, or
> libqt3-mt-dev and g++ >= 3.0 for the new 2.6 kernel versions, and 2.6.X
> kernels also have an additional option, make gconfig, which requires
> libglade2-dev, and other packages these depend on]

> Randy

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