lookin' good

[ScottHowell]

Well you know someone once told me that if your facing a really big
problem, go sleep on it and come back to it in the morning/evening. Sure
enough they were correct. I sat here lastnight trying to figure out what
was not right. I kept looking over the output of my make dep process and
it just wouldn't come to me. I had verified that everything was where it
aut to be.
I then happen to run make menuconfig to make a minor change in
anticipation of eventually compiling a kernel. Well that process wouldn't
work either. Seems it couldn't find ncurses. So, then I just knew
something was amiss. I fired-up the one spare brain cell I have and looked
at ld.so.conf and sure enough there was only one line. It was pointing to
/usr/X11R6/libs so I added two more lines, /usr/lib and /lib. Not sure if
/lib is redundant and perhaps someone could shed some light on that or if
there's any other directories I aut to be referencing in that file. I then
ran ldconfig and attempted my make menuconfig which worked then finally
make dep  which as of this minute looks to have gone well. I suspect the
rest should go well. I guess before I posted my msg, I should have just
kept hacking and hacking at the problem. I've never had to worry about
kernels not compiling cause some lib was lost, but it pays to really look
at the problem and just think about what could be wrong.

Sorry for wasting the bw. It really does pay to try and hack the problem
yourself first, but I have to admitt that lastnight I simply had no clue
where to find the answer. I think stepping away a while helps to clear the
mind and get things back into perspective. I had enough problems for one
day so at 11:30 pm its was time to quit. Glad I did.



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Scott 
Linux, when you need a real os.