Bug 13344 – make menuconfig ... gives an error about ncurses not being found ...

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 12819
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description 4rno 2003-01-06 00:50:03 UTC]

had to use make config instead while in installation final steps (i was
installing 1.4rc2 from stage1)

[Comment 1 Tobias Eichert 2003-01-06 14:54:43 UTC]

mmh..this is strange since ncurses is part of our base packages.
did you have issues while installing ncurses itself?

[Comment 2 David Mallwitz 2003-01-07 10:40:47 UTC]

I just ran into this same issue. Using the 1.4_rc2 iso, I copied the stage
tarball from the cdrom rather than downloading from the gentoo site. Proceeded
with a stage 1 install on x86 hardware. Emerge -s ncurses showed an installed
5.3-r1, but I re-emerged ncurses anyway. Also did another 'etc-update'. Made no
difference even though the emerge completed successfully, so I ran a 'make
config' just like 4rno did. Got an error that the system couldn't find cc when I
tried a 'make dep', so I copied one of my other kernels over and continued with
the install. No other problems, and the whole thing is working fine now. 'Make
menuconfig' runs correctly now too. Gotta figure it's something about the stage
tarball on the iso...

[Comment 3 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-01-08 06:34:22 UTC]

Workaround: 
 
env-update 
source /etc/profile 
 
This is becuse gcc-3.2 is used in the tarball, but the bootstrap will install gcc-3.2.1 
thus requiring new enviroment variables. 

[Comment 4 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-01-08 22:39:07 UTC]

Aliz -- is there any way for us to fix this? I'll cc azarah on this one too.

[Comment 5 Daniel Ahlberg (RETIRED) 2003-01-09 03:25:22 UTC]

The possible solutions I can come up with are:

1. Have gcc-3.2.1 already in the tarballs
2. In the installation how-to, add the workaround after bootstrapping
3. Force env-update and source /etc/profile.env in bootstrap.sh after gcc is
compiled (after emerge -c gcc)

[Comment 6 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-01-10 02:13:20 UTC]

Assigning to jhhudso for QA testing....

[Comment 7 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-01-11 09:56:57 UTC]

Yep, unfortunate issue with -r6.  It should be fixed when the new stages with
-r6 comes out.  Jared, give me a shout if you need any info/whatever.

[Comment 8 Cam Mead 2003-01-14 14:52:17 UTC]

This issue remains outstanding in the new iso released lastnight.
http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/experimental/x86/livecd/livecd-basic-x86-2003011300.iso

env-update 
source /etc/profile 
Fixed the issue.

HTH

[Comment 9 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-01-17 05:16:10 UTC]

We are just currently busy testing gcc-config-1.3.0, but it also adresses the
problem.  If you want, please test it and let me know of issues ...

[Comment 10 SpanKY 2003-01-26 22:59:59 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12819 ***

[Comment 11 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2003-02-02 05:21:50 UTC]

*** Bug 14905 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***