Bug 122006
| Summary: | "make menuconfig" fails without ncurses-devel | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Don Buchholz <buchholz> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Ernie Petrides <petrides> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | buchholz, petrides, riel |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2005-06-04 00:05:27 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Hi, Don. The correct build-from-source procedure is as follows: 1) make mrproper 2) cp configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-smp.config .config [or some other config] 3) make oldconfig 4) make dep 5) make bzImage 6) make modules Using "make menuconfig" is not supported. Cheers. -ernie |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.2) Gecko/20040301 Description of problem: Recommended (RedHat Sys. Admin. Guide, Appendix A) kernel configuration method fails unless "ncurses-devel" is installed. The package is not 'required' when installing "kernel-source". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-source-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL.i386.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. cd /usr/src/linux-2.4 2. cp configs/kernel-2.4.21-i686-smp.config .config 3. make menuconfig Actual Results: # make menuconfig rm -f include/asm ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm) make -C scripts/lxdialog all make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21-9.0.1.EL/scripts/lxdialog' gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE -DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>" -c -o checklist.o checklist.c In file included from checklist.c:24: dialog.h:29:20: curses.h: No such file or directory In file included from checklist.c:24: dialog.h:127: syntax error before "use_colors" ... Expected Results: Expected the kernel configuration menus to be displayed. Additional info: This has been reported under the Fedora Core product as bug #121228. I have only seen this on an i686 system, but assume other kernel archs are affected, too.