Cant't find curses.h

[Steve Searle]

Around 02:52am on Saturday, September 01, 2007 (UK time), mcforum at bellsouth.net scrawled:

> The section on building ones own kernel seems to no longer be in the
> install documentation or otherwise in the wiki and my memory is
> missing details.  Google dredged up a copy of the older document.
> I've installed all the pieces I could find but none of the usual ways
> of modifying .config will work.  Make menuconfig is missing curses.h.
> Other parts are missing from make xconfig.  yum whatprovides has
> nothing to do.  I really want to build the kernel module to read my
> hpfs partitions.  I suppose I could ignore the warnings and just edit
> .config.  Is there a new method that I haven't found the  button box
> for or What?

I suspect "yum install ncurses-devel" will give you curses.h, though I
don't know why "yum whatprovides curses.h" doesn't work (it doesn't work
on my system either).

Steve

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A:  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q:  Why is top-posting a bad thing?

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