Bug 69284

Summary:	ncurses library missing for make menuconfig
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Carl T. Miller <carl>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Eido Inoue <havill>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Jay Turner <jturner>
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Version:	7.3	CC:	srevivo
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Description Carl T. Miller 2002-07-19 21:55:43 UTC

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Description of problem:
I've installed all four rpms that have "ncurses" in the name, yet I still get an
error message when I run make "menuconfig".  The exact message is:  /usr/bin/ld:
 cannot find -lncurses


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.su -
2.cd /usr/src/linux*
3.make menuconfig
	

Actual Results:  Get error message about missing ncurses library.

Expected Results:  I expected "make menuconfig" to work.

Additional info:

I installed four different rpms from the 7.3 distro which have "ncurses"
anywhere in the filename. What am I missing?  And why isn't this library
automatically installed?  It's used in many programs.

Comment 1 Eido Inoue 2003-08-01 21:23:08 UTC

There are only two ncurses packages-- the main package and the -devel
subpackage. I'm unable to reproduce your problem with a stock 7.3 install.