Re: [PATCH]Fix menuconfig error message

[Kurt Wall]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 05:16:32PM +0200, David Weinehall wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 09:57:00AM -0400, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > If you try to run `make menuconfig' on a system that lacks ncurses
> > development libs, you get an error message telling you to install
> > ncurses-devel. Some popular distributions don't have an ncurses-devel
> > package. This patch generalizes the error message. Patch is against
> > 2.6.12.

[...]

> > +		echo ">> to use 'make menuconfig'. If you have an RPM-based" ;\
> > +		echo ">> Debian-based distribution you should install the" ;\ 
> > +		echo ">> ncurses-devel package." ;\
> >  		echo ;\
> >  		exit 1 ;\
> >  	fi
> 
> You know, I'd say that *very* few (approximately zero)
> Debian-based distributions are RPM-based =)  The Debian package is
> called libncurses5-dev, btw.

Silly typo. I'll post a new patch with the Debian package name.
Thanks.

Kurt
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