From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:15:15 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] ncurses: bump to 5.9 In-Reply-To: <1343328590-1803-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> References: <1343328590-1803-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1343328590-1803-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <50119743.3090505@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07/26/12 15:49, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Bumping to 5.9 has two nice side-effects: > > * It builds fine on noMMU architectures such as Blackfin, which will > fix build failures like > http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/cf3e6a95c82b60d63da041293db576a8f21f9136/build-end.log. > > * It installs a pkg-config file, which will allow gpsd to find > ncurses properly, without the need to use ncurses5-config, which > means we can get rid of one of our gpsd patches. Thanks to Mike > Frysinger for pointing the new --enable-pc-files option. > > After this bump, I build tested a large number of the ncurses reverse > dependencies we have in Buildroot, and they all built fine. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni Nack. The version bump to 5.8 and 5.9 had issues in the past and still has. It may compile just fine but it segfaults miserably in a target, chroot or qemu image. Simple test, i586 target with external toolchain, build less and see. Regards.