From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kbuild-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, zippel@linux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:46:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050704154652.GA2082@kurtwerks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050704151632.GF16867@khan.acc.umu.se>
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:16:32PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> 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.
[...]
> > + 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.
Silly typo. I'll post a new patch with the Debian package name.
Thanks.
Kurt
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-04 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-04 13:57 [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message Kurt Wall
2005-07-04 15:16 ` David Weinehall
2005-07-04 15:46 ` Kurt Wall [this message]
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2005-07-04 15:53 Kurt Wall
2005-07-04 18:32 ` Roman Zippel
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