asterisk users - Oct 2007 - Mandriva 2008

Just a note for those of you trying to install Asterisk 1.4.x under 
Mandriva 2008.

I wasn't able to get make menuselect to work.  It kept telling me that I 
didn't have ncurses installed (I have  ncurses-5.6-1) even though the 
configure script said it found it.  I eventually went into the 
menuselect directory and did a ./configure and make.  After I did that, 
I went back into the Asterisk root and did a make menuselect and 
everything worked.

Doug

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On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 09:08 -0400, Doug Lytle wrote:
> I wasn't able to get make menuselect to work.  It kept telling me that
I
> didn't have ncurses installed (I have  ncurses-5.6-1) even though the 
> configure script said it found it.  I eventually went into the 
> menuselect directory and did a ./configure and make.  After I did that, 
> I went back into the Asterisk root and did a make menuselect and 
> everything worked.
Yes, that's not an uncommon problem, and it's no no way limited to just
Mandriva.  What happens is that the menuselect autoconf doesn't get
re-run, so it never learns that you've installed the ncurses libraries.

I always suggest people do a "make distclean" after installing any
additional libraries, and then go on to the "./configure" step.  This
will ensure that the menuselect autoconf stuff gets cleaned out.


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