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SubjectRe: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message
Hi,

On Mon, 4 Jul 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:

> --- a/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile 2005-07-04 09:54:44.000000000 -0400
> +++ b/scripts/lxdialog/Makefile 2005-07-04 11:50:00.000000000 -0400
> @@ -35,8 +35,11 @@
> echo -e "\007" ;\
> echo ">> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries." ;\
> echo ">>" ;\
> - echo ">> You must install ncurses-devel in order" ;\
> - echo ">> to use 'make menuconfig'" ;\
> + echo ">> You must install ncurses development libraries" ;\
> + echo ">> to use 'make menuconfig'. If you have an RPM-based" ;\
> + echo ">> distribution you should install the ncurses-devel" ;\
> + echo ">> Debian users will probably want to install the
> + echo ">> libncurses5-dev package." ;\
> echo ;\
> exit 1 ;\
> fi

I would prefer if we don't mention special distributions or version
numbers and just mentioned a few common package names.
On Debian libncurses-dev or ncurses-dev works as well and so is better
than libncurses5-dev.

bye, Roman
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