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07-15-2003, 09:11 AM
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HCL Maintainer
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: McCalla, AL, USA
Distribution: Gentoo on headless; Arch on everything that requires a GUI
Posts: 6,941
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Ncurses error message building kernel
I installed RedHat 9 fresh today. My previous installs have booted slow, and run slow. Today I first tried with LILO, Server install, and selecting packages from the tree. Forget it! That was a mess. So I installed again, and chose the Personal Desktop installation, and KDE only - no Gnome. Just selected some packages that I knew I would use, and no development tools for now.
I am attempting to build a kernel with linux-2.4.21, because I've been told that will really clean things up and make Linux run faster than Windoze - which it hasn't so far. There was no symlink in /usr/src, so I made one, untarred linux-2.4.21.tar.gz into it, and did make mrproper. Next I did make menuconfig, and got this error message.
[root@localhost linux]# make menuconfig
rm -f include/asm
( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
make -C scripts/lxdialog all
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/scripts/lxdialog'
/bin/sh: line 1: gcc: command not found
>> Unable to find the Ncurses libraries.
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>> You must have Ncurses installed in order
>> to use 'make menuconfig'
make[1]: *** [ncurses] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/scripts/lxdialog'
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2
[root@localhost linux]#
What do I do now?
TIA
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07-15-2003, 09:41 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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that's not an ncurses problem, you just don't even have gcc installed on your system. if you want to compile a kernel, it helps to have a compiler installed ;-)
btw. kde sucks...
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07-15-2003, 09:48 AM
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HCL Maintainer
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: McCalla, AL, USA
Distribution: Gentoo on headless; Arch on everything that requires a GUI
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How much is that supposed to *help* me?
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07-15-2003, 10:32 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Oricola, Italy
Distribution: RH 9, so far
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Oh, I think you need the gcc, g++, make, (automake), and all the things coming along with the "development kit". If you did not install, just install it. It's about 300~400 MB.
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07-15-2003, 10:35 AM
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HCL Maintainer
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: McCalla, AL, USA
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Quote:
Originally posted by captainstorm
Oh, I think you need the gcc, g++, make, (automake), and all the things coming along with the "development kit". If you did not install, just install it. It's about 300~400 MB.
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Could I get that off one of the 3 CD's made from the iso images, or from someplace like Apt? I'm installing Apt at the moment, but seems like if I could figure out how, it would be easier to install it from the CD's.
TIA
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07-15-2003, 10:42 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Oricola, Italy
Distribution: RH 9, so far
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Sure you could. And the 3 CDs from the iso images are enough. I think now you have the RH9. So from the system tools, you can choose "adding or removing files", then select the "development kit". You'll be asked to insert the CD.
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07-15-2003, 10:47 AM
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HCL Maintainer
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: McCalla, AL, USA
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Thanks captainstorm. I appreciate the instructions. Will do that now.
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07-15-2003, 11:07 AM
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HCL Maintainer
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: McCalla, AL, USA
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Just to clarify those instructions, in case some other new user like myself tries to follow this, the correct path is:
System Settings, Add/Remove Applications
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07-15-2003, 01:31 PM
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HCL Maintainer
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: McCalla, AL, USA
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bug
During the make bzImage portion of building the kernel, there were errors. Can someone help me learn how to post a bug report? This is the info. after what looks to be the last good line.
namei.c: In function `vfs_rename_dir':
namei.c:1785: internal error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL: http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [namei.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/fs'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.21/fs'
make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2
[root@localhost linux]#
TIA
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