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SubjectRe: kernel source dependency
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Apr 3 2007 08:18, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Without ncurses installed, you should see these messages:
>>
>> echo " *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries."
>> echo " *** make menuconfig require the ncurses libraries"
>> echo " *** "
>> echo " *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again"
>> echo " *** "
>>
>> Do you not see them? or do you need something different?
>
> Perhaps libreadline-devel? Though ncurses-devel will *most likely* have a
> dependency on that, more even than the kernel does on ncurses-devel ;-)

That is not so :) The kernel-source's 'menuconfig' target does not need
libreadline-devel. Besides, there is no readline functionality that is
evident at menuconfig. Menu navigation is entirely done by ncurses calls.

Thank you very much.

Best Regards,

Carlo

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