Re: kernel source dependency

[Carlo Florendo]

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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