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From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, zippel@linux-m68k.org,
	kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:53:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050704155350.GB2082@kurtwerks.com> (raw)

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 <kwall@kurtwerks.com>


--- 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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             reply	other threads:[~2005-07-04 15:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-04 15:53 Kurt Wall [this message]
2005-07-04 18:32 ` Roman Zippel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-04 13:57 Kurt Wall
2005-07-04 15:16 ` David Weinehall
2005-07-04 15:46   ` Kurt Wall

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