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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: DaZZa <dazza@zip.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Problems compiling kernel greater than 2.4.7 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:35:15 +1100."
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002 13:35:15 +1100 (EST), 
DaZZa <dazza@zip.com.au> wrote:
>I'm attempting to compile a new kernel. 2.4.14 by preference, but this
>problem also exists with every version I've tried beyond 2.4.7.
>
>On installing a clean copy of the kernel source tree for ANY version after
>2.4.7, I perform the following
>
>cd /usr/src
>ln -s linux-2.4.14 linux
>cd linux
>make mrproper
>make menuconfig
>
>At this point, menuconfig runs, and I receive the initial, "Linux 2.4.14
>Kernel Configuration" blue yellow and white screen.
>
>However, selecting *ANY* menu option at this point gives the following
>error message
>
>===cut===
>There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is
>built prior to running Menuconfig.  Usually this is an indicator that you
>have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the
>old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/include or /usr/include/ncurses.

An alternative cause is an incorrectly coded menu option.  Try make
xconfig, the xconfig code is much more rigorous about checking for
incorrect CML1 syntax.

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