From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966233AbXDDBWA (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:22:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S966236AbXDDBWA (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:22:00 -0400 Received: from [202.78.101.198] ([202.78.101.198]:35551 "EHLO mail.hq.astra.ph" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966233AbXDDBV7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Apr 2007 21:21:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4612FD8F.6080103@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:21:19 +0800 From: Carlo Florendo User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Randy Dunlap , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel source dependency References: <46120EBE.8080705@gmail.com> <20070403081853.6590ef84.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jan Engelhardt wrote: > On Apr 3 2007 08:18, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> Hi, >> Without ncurses installed, you should see these messages: >> >> echo " *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries." >> echo " *** make menuconfig require the ncurses libraries" >> echo " *** " >> echo " *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again" >> echo " *** " >> >> Do you not see them? or do you need something different? > > Perhaps libreadline-devel? Though ncurses-devel will *most likely* have a > dependency on that, more even than the kernel does on ncurses-devel ;-) That is not so :) The kernel-source's 'menuconfig' target does not need libreadline-devel. Besides, there is no readline functionality that is evident at menuconfig. Menu navigation is entirely done by ncurses calls. Thank you very much. Best Regards, Carlo -- Carlo Florendo Softare Engineer/Network Co-Administrator Astra Philippines Inc. UP-Ayala Technopark, Diliman 1101, Quezon City Philippines http://www.astra.ph -- The Astra Group of Companies 5-3-11 Sekido, Tama City Tokyo 206-0011, Japan http://www.astra.co.jp