Re: menuconfig issue (checklist) in 2.6.20.7 & 2.6.21-rc7 ?

[Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 12:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:54:14 +0530 "Sunil Naidu" <akula2.shark@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I was trying to compile those kernels with make menuconfig. I am
> > getting the error in scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o. Here is the
> > output:
> > 
> > [sukhoi@Akula2 linux-2.6.20.7]$ sudo make menuconfig
> >   HOSTCC  scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
> > In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
> > scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file
> > or directory
> 
> I guess you need to install the curses development package.  Here it's called
> ncurses-devel.

There are general funnies in the menuconfig world (my preference) here.
For instance, I recently had reason to change/test different default IO
schedulers, and found that no matter what I did, I couldn't select a
default IO scheduler any more, though I used to be able to do so.  If I
totally whack my .config, i.e. use default config, I still _can't
select_.  If I take my current .config back to a kernel where I could
select (a 2.6.16 tree i still have lying about) I can't select either,
but with the config I had at the time, I could/can select just fine.  If
I use xconfig (don't really like, but...) I can select, and a manual
edit would likely also work just fine.

Box is P4, with SuSe 10.2.. haven't had time to see if maybe there's
some weird userland ncurses problem.  Just a note in case others are
seeing problems in this area.   Not much of a bug report I know, but
maybe useful for readers and those who keep strange events in the backs
of their minds ;)

	-Mike