@@ -44,4 +44,7 @@ echo >&2 "* Unable to find the ncurses package."
echo >&2 "* Install ncurses (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev"
echo >&2 "* depending on your distribution)."
echo >&2 "*"
+echo >&2 "* You may also need to install pkg-config to find the"
+echo >&2 "* ncurses installed in a non-default location."
+echo >&2 "*"
exit 1
@@ -41,7 +41,17 @@ fi
echo >&2 "*"
echo >&2 "* Unable to find the ncurses package."
-echo >&2 "* Install ncurses (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev"
-echo >&2 "* depending on your distribution)."
+echo >&2 "*"
+if [ -n "$(command -v pkg-config)" ]; then
+ echo >&2 "* Install ncurses (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev"
+ echo >&2 "* depending on your distribution)."
+else
+ echo >&2 "* You may need to install ncurses"
+ echo >&2 "* (ncurses-devel or libncurses-dev"
+ echo >&2 "* depending on your distribution)."
+ echo >&2 "*"
+ echo >&2 "* If you have ncurses installed,"
+ echo >&2 "* you may also need to install pkg-config."
+fi
echo >&2 "*"
exit 1
If ncurses is installed, but at a non-default location, the previous error message was not helpful in resolving the situation. Now it will suggest that pkg-config might need to be installed in addition to ncurses. Signed-off-by: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is> --- scripts/kconfig/mconf-cfg.sh | 3 +++ scripts/kconfig/nconf-cfg.sh | 14 ++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)