Re: make menuconfig fails

[John Peel]

On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Keith Owens wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:26:02 -0600 (CST), 
> John Peel <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >I just setup a new box running RH7.2 and I am trying to compile kernel 
> >2.4.18. I did a minimal install on this box as it is only going to function as a router. When I 
> >initially did a 'make menuconfig' it gave me an error regarding ncurses 
> >being missing. I installed ncurses, ncurses4, and ncurses-devel. Now when 
> >I do a 'make menuconfig' I get the following output:
> >
> >[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/scripts/lxdialog'
> >gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DLOCALE  
> >-I/usr/include/ncurses -DCURSES_LOC="<ncurses.h>" -c -o checklist.o 
> >checklist.c
> >checklist.c: In function `dialog_checklist':
> >checklist.c:154: `TRUE' undeclared (first use in this function)
> 
> TRUE should be defined in /usr/include/ncurses/ncurses.h, like this
> 
> /* XSI and SVr4 specify that curses implements 'bool'.  However, C++ may also
>  * implement it.  If so, we must use the C++ compiler's type to avoid conflict
>  * with other interfaces.
>  */
> 
> #undef TRUE
> #define TRUE    1
> 
> #undef FALSE
> #define FALSE   0
> 
Mine looks very similar to this. I'm not sure if you just snipped info or 
if I need to change something to get it to work right. Here's the output:

/* XSI and SVr4 specify that curses implements 'bool'.  However, C++ may also
 * implement it.  If so, we must use the C++ compiler's type to avoid conflict 
 *with other interfaces.
 *
 * A further complication is that <stdbool.h> may declare 'bool' to be a
 * different type, such as an enum which is not necessarily compatible with
 * C++.  If we have <stdbool.h>, make 'bool' a macro, so users may #undef it.
 * Otherwise, let it remain a typedef to avoid conflicts with other #define's.
 * In either case, make a typedef for NCURSES_BOOL which can be used if needed
 * from either C or C++.
 */

#ifdef SVR4_CURSES
#undef TRUE
#define TRUE    1

#undef FALSE
#define FALSE   0
#endif

Like I said everything else looks pretty much the same. I'm jus ttrying to 
figure this out wihtout having to do any scewy upgrading on the system. 
Thanks, -peel

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