make menuconfig and xconfig problem
 

I am running fedora 7 and download the linux-2.6.23 src to recompile.

The instruction say that i have to
1. make mrproper ---> work
2.1 make meuconfig --> has following error

[root@mmc linux-2.6]# make menuconfig
HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o
In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:32:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory
In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:24:
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:97: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘chtype’
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:187: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:194: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:196: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:197: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:198: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:199: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/dialog.h:201: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:31: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:59: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c:95: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.c: In function ‘dialog_checklist’:


2.2. try "make xconfig" got this error
[root@mmc linux-2.6]# make xconfig
CHECK qt
*
* Unable to find the QT3 installation. Please make sure that
* the QT3 development package is correctly installed and
* either install pkg-config or set the QTDIR environment
* variable to the correct location.
*
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `scripts/kconfig/.tmp_qtcheck', needed by `scripts/kconfig/qconf.o'. Stop.
make: *** [xconfig] Error 2


Not sure how to get through this problem.. In 2.2, I installed the qt (yum install qt), but did not help.

Any expert here can help?

Have you run the configuration file ?

have you run make world after running ./configure

Found the problem. i need to install ncurses-devel libraries to get it work..
Still trying to figure out why make xconfig does not work/

IIRC you need to install libqt3-mt-dev.

You neeed to install ncurses and kernel build tools

Might be an idea to look at the date these were posted on. The OP acknowledges they need curses libs anyway

make xconfig
 

Try to install these packages.
sudo yum install qt3 qt3-devel