From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
To: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, jlec@gentoo.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:50:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <513095F6.2010000@suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201302281916.00257.yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
On 28.2.2013 19:16, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> On Thursday 28 February 2013 jlec@gentoo.org wrote:
>> This patch replaces the old heuristic for detection of ncurses libs for
>> linking the ncurses menuconfig dialog by the use of the config scripts.
>> This results in the requirement of ncurses version 5.6 or newer for menuconfig.
>
> As you said, ncurses started bundling these files with ncurses-5.6,
> which was released in 2006.
>
> OTOH, RHEL4 is still a widely used distro, and was released in 2005,
> so is using an ncurses older than 5.6, so I'm afraid we can't drop
> the legacy code like that.
Yes, please keep support for older libraries if it does not require too
much effort.
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-01 11:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-28 11:52 [PATCH] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs jlec
2013-02-28 18:16 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-02-28 21:35 ` justin
2013-03-01 11:50 ` Michal Marek [this message]
2013-03-03 20:13 ` Yann E. MORIN
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