HELP::Kernel compilation:ncurses issue

[amit4g]

Hi,

Though this has nothing to do with linux kernel as such,but posting here as someone might have faced the similar issue during kernel compilation.


While trying to build the linux kernel - 2.6.24.2,
i get the following error message during initial phase(make menuconfig) :
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory <===
In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:

It seems that something is wrong with 'ncurses'
<snip from linux-2.6.24.2/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h>
#include CURSES_LOC
<snip from linux-2.6.24.2/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h>

<snip from linux-2.6.24.2/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh>
# Where is ncurses.h?
ccflags()
{
if [ -f /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h ]; then
echo '-I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>"'
elif [ -f /usr/include/ncurses/curses.h ]; then
echo '-I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses/curses.h>"'
elif [ -f /usr/include/ncurses.h ]; then
echo '-DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>"'
else
echo '-DCURSES_LOC="<curses.h>"'
fi
}

<snip from linux-2.6.24.2/scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh>

After looking into the /usr/include directory , i got to know that the header ncurses.h is absent

On the same machine,i could see an rpm by the name "ncurses-5.5-24.20060715"
[amit@localhost include]$ rpm -qa|grep -i ncurses
ncurses-5.5-24.20060715

[amit@localhost include]$ rpm -qi ncurses-5.5-24.20060715
Name : ncurses Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version : 5.5 Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release : 24.20060715 Build Date: Thu 31 Aug 2006 05:41:08 PM IST
Install Date: Thu 07 Feb 2008 08:30:07 PM IST Build Host: hs20-bc1-7.build.redhat.com
Group : System Environment/Libraries Source RPM: ncurses-5.5-24.20060715.src.rpm
Size : 2829883 License: distributable
Signature : DSA/SHA1, Thu 18 Jan 2007 09:40:59 PM IST, Key ID 5326810137017186
Packager : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
URL : NCURSES - New Curses
Summary : A terminal handling library
Description :
The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of
updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses
(new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the
discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library.

i tried to install the latest ncurses(version 5.6) downloaded from the site:

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.6.tar.gz, but this also failed during the 'make' step

Now to configure the kernel, i can go through the .config file and edit the parameters there,
but this would be really a tedious job(though heard that most of the programmers prefer this), as i haven't done it before,hence please guide me here.

~amit

[devils casper]

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