Re: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:57:00AM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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 <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
> 
> 
> --- 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

You know, I'd say that *very* few (approximately zero)
Debian-based distributions are RPM-based =)  The Debian package is
called libncurses5-dev, btw.


Regards: David Weinehall
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