[PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

[PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

[Kurt Wall]

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


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Re: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

[David Weinehall]

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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Re: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

[Kurt Wall]

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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[PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

[Kurt Wall]

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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Re: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

[Roman Zippel]

Hi,

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:

> --- 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

I would prefer if we don't mention special distributions or version 
numbers and just mentioned a few common package names.
On Debian libncurses-dev or ncurses-dev works as well and so is better 
than libncurses5-dev.

bye, Roman