From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030853AbXDYTcE (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:32:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030998AbXDYTcE (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:32:04 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:51423 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030853AbXDYTcB (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 15:32:01 -0400 X-Authenticated: #14349625 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19/mtVX5QZ/mlPLYMYE3gHR+IlcXlprA2l8gcrMzV BJZCy0tDlcRTxb Subject: Re: menuconfig issue (checklist) in 2.6.20.7 & 2.6.21-rc7 ? From: Mike Galbraith To: Andrew Morton Cc: Sunil Naidu , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20070425120730.4c267c15.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <8355959a0704250724g3614d293h2dd08833a6ef473b@mail.gmail.com> <20070425120730.4c267c15.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:31:57 +0200 Message-Id: <1177529517.6434.29.camel@Homer.simpson.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 12:07 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:54:14 +0530 "Sunil Naidu" 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