make menuconfig doesn't find ncurses headers

[inp3dance]

Make menuconfig doesn't find ncurses headers on my system, howerver ncurses-devel package is installed. I get the following error message:

make menuconfig
 *** Unable to find the ncurses libraries or the
 *** required header files.
 *** 'make menuconfig' requires the ncurses libraries.
 *** 
 *** Install ncurses (ncurses-devel) and try again.
 *** 
make[1]: *** [scripts/kconfig/dochecklxdialog] Error 1
make: *** [menuconfig] Error 2

I even did a reinstall of all ncurses related stuff with

yum reinstall ncurses ncurses-libs ncurses-devel

but doesn't changed anything.

Recently I tried to install Adobe Air on my 64 bit system, wich required a lot off stuff, but in the end I does not succeded. I kept track all of the packages wich I had to install to make Air work, and later I removed all of them and all the dependencies pulled in one by one - I think the ncurses problem appeard then, I broke something, but I don't know what.

I use Fedora 14 x86_64 KDE

Any help would be great, I use linux for 5-6 years now, but I'm new at Fedora.

Thank you in advance!

[SiliconSlick]

Assuming you are building a custom kernel ala http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel ...

If I remove ncurses-devel and do make menuconfig, I get the same error (FC14 x86_64). Once I install it is happy again.

Hacking on the scripts by adding an 'echo' and 'ldd' to get some info -- i.e. modifying scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh so that lines 38-45 look like this:

check() {
	echo  $cc -xc - -o $tmp
        $cc -xc - -o $tmp 2>/dev/null <<'EOF'
#include CURSES_LOC
main() {}
EOF
	ldd $tmp
	if [ $? != 0 ]; then

gives this output:

gcc -I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC=<ncurses.h> -DLOCALE -lncursesw -xc - -o .lxdialog.tmp
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff44310000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib64/libncursesw.so.5 (0x0000003688a00000)
libtinfo.so.5 => /lib64/libtinfo.so.5 (0x0000003697400000)
libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003685600000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib64/libdl.so.2 (0x0000003685e00000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003685200000)

which doesn't shed much light on the problem since /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h and /usr/lib64/ncursesw.so are included in ncurses-devel and /lib64/libncursesw.so.5 is provided by ncurses-lib.

Not sure what is going on unless for some strange reason it wants ncurses-devel.i686 and ncurses-lib.i686 for your build (I only needed the x86_64 version here).

SS

[inp3dance]

No, installing ncruses-lib.i686 and ncurses-devel.i686 does not solve the problem. I think I will need a reinstall

---------- Post added at 06:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:49 PM ----------

By the way, I built my kernel the simple way, just unpacking the source, applying some fedora patches, make oldconfig, make menuconfig and make install.
But eighter way, ncurses headers are needed for make menuconfig.

[vallimar]

You aren't trying to do this from the /usr/src/ kernel dir provided by kernel-devel are you?
It won't work if you are as those are not the complete kernel sources.