Re: 2.0.36's "make menuconfig" broken on my system

Anthony Barbachan (barbacha@Hinako.AMBusiness.com)
Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:35:37 -0500


-----Original Message-----
From: Riley Williams <rhw@bigfoot.com>
To: Anthony Barbachan <barbacha@hinako.ambusiness.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 8:04 AM
Subject: Re: 2.0.36's "make menuconfig" broken on my system

>Hi Anthony.
>
> >> My experience has been that "make menuconfig" does NOT work under
> >> X-Windows in an xterm - basically, the main menu gets mangled into
> >> a semi-unreadable state when first loaded, and when a submenu is
> >> selected, it's drawn on top of the main menu without cxlearing the
> >> screen first, then when one goes back to the main menu, that gets
> >> drawn on top of the result...
>
> > This isn't the same problem that I have been having with 2.0.36.
> > BTW, any news on a resolution to this bug yet?
>
>This bug has been fixed somewhere in the patches between 2.0.35 and
>2.0.36, I'm glad to report - "make menuconfig" works fine under
>2.0.36.

Hi,

The bug hasn't been fixed for me. In fact make menuconfig breaks on my
system. All previous 2.0.x kernels' make menuconfig work fine. I suspect
the breaking may be occuring when using ncurses 4.2.

>
>Best wishes from Riley.
>

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