Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Problems compiling kernel greater than 2.4.7 | Date | Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:09:18 +1100 |
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:35:15 +1100 (EST), DaZZa <dazza@zip.com.au> wrote: >I'm attempting to compile a new kernel. 2.4.14 by preference, but this >problem also exists with every version I've tried beyond 2.4.7. > >On installing a clean copy of the kernel source tree for ANY version after >2.4.7, I perform the following > >cd /usr/src >ln -s linux-2.4.14 linux >cd linux >make mrproper >make menuconfig > >At this point, menuconfig runs, and I receive the initial, "Linux 2.4.14 >Kernel Configuration" blue yellow and white screen. > >However, selecting *ANY* menu option at this point gives the following >error message > >===cut=== >There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is >built prior to running Menuconfig. Usually this is an indicator that you >have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the >old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/include or /usr/include/ncurses.
An alternative cause is an incorrectly coded menu option. Try make xconfig, the xconfig code is much more rigorous about checking for incorrect CML1 syntax.
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