[wellylug] new hard disk problems

Pizbit pizbit at neko.net.nz
Sat Jun 12 15:25:35 NZST 2004


You'll want something like libncurses5-dev (apt-cache search lib ncurse dev) I 
believe.

Mark Signal wrote:
> We have progress - thanks very much for the help
> 
> I installed the kernel headers with no change
> 
> I did a apt-get install libc6-dev
> 
> and got this when I ran make menuconfig:
> 
> dev2:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.6# make menuconfig
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> 
>>>Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
>>>
>>>You must install ncurses-devel in order
>>>to use 'make menuconfig'
> 
> 
> make[2]: *** [scripts/lxdialog/ncurses] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
> 
> 
> I did a apt-cache search ncurses-devel and got nothing
> so I ran a apt-cache search lncurses which pointed to termcap-compat which
> seemed odd but I installed it anyway with no change
> 
> I supose this is what happens when you start off with minimalist installs?
> 
> thanks again
> 
> Mark
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
> [mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz]On Behalf Of David Antliff
> Sent: Saturday, 12 June 2004 1:14 p.m.
> To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
> Subject: RE: [wellylug] new hard disk problems
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Mark Signal wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi
>>when I run make menuconfig I get the following:
>>(and similar error with make oldconfig)
> 
> ...
> 
>>dev2:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.6# make menuconfig
>>  HOSTCC  scripts/basic/fixdep
>>scripts/basic/fixdep.c:97:23: sys/types.h: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> /usr/include/sys/types.h (and most of the others) are part of libc6 (aka
> glibc2). Check if this file exists. If it doesn't, then you need to get
> the libc headers from somewhere. With debian, that's usually a -dev
> package (libc6-dev I believe). For Gentoo it's sys-libs/glibc.
> 
> --
> David.
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