[aclug-L] Re: xconfig crashes

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For xconfig, you probably don't have the correct X libraries
installed--looks like you don't have the needed tk libraries, to be exact.

For menuconfig, you probably don't have the ncurses libraries installed.


On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, phrostie wrote:

> now that i've started building my own kernels, i've run into a odd problem.
> i have two machines with almost identical setup, one is a 486/133 with rh5.2 
> the other is
> a 686/300 also with rh5.2.
> the 486 will run xconfig, menuconfig, and just plain config.
> but on the 686 xconfig and menuconfig crash.
> 
> i may not need, to do this agin for a while but i would like to know what the 
> proble is.
> 
> here's a cut n paste:
> 
> [root@kansas linux]# make xconfig
> rm -f include/asm
> ( cd include ; ln -sf asm-i386 asm)
> make -C scripts kconfig.tk
> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/scripts'
> gcc -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wall -c -o 
> tkparse.o
> tkparse.c
> tkparse.c: In function `do_source':
> tkparse.c:588: warning: `old_file' might be used uninitialized in this 
> function
> gcc -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wall -c -o 
> tkcond.o
> tkcond.c
> gcc -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -g -Wall -c -o 
> tkgen.o
> tkgen.c
> tkgen.c: In function `dump_tk_script':
> tkgen.c:680: warning: `menulabel' might be used uninitialized in this function
> gcc -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/include -o tkparse tkparse.o tkcond.o tkgen.o
> ./tkparse < ../arch/i386/config.in  > kconfig.tmp
> make[1]: *** [kconfig.tk] Error 139
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/scripts'
> make: *** [xconfig] Error 2
> 
> any ideas?
> 
> --
> phrostie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Oh I've slipped the surly bonds of dos
> and danced the skies on LINUX silvered wings.
> http://www.cottagesoft.com/~phrostie/cad-tastrafy
> 
> 
> 

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