From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:21:39 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] ncurses: bump to 5.9 In-Reply-To: <20120727085945.1b6339ab@skate> References: <1343328590-1803-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1343328590-1803-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <50119743.3090505@zacarias.com.ar> <20120727085945.1b6339ab@skate> Message-ID: <50126BB3.2070502@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 07/27/12 03:59, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Le Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:15:15 -0300, > Gustavo Zacarias a ?crit : > >> 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. > > There must something odd: both Yocto and PTXdist are using ncurses 5.9, > so I presume it works for them. So it's not as simple as > "cross-compilation breaks ncurses 5.9", it's something more subtle than > that. > > Thomas Yes, i agree it's pretty much some little thing. I did some tests in the past and it doesn't seem to be configure options related (didn't try everything around, just what would be more obvious to cause such a failure). Yet OpenWRT, which is BR's closest relative, still uses 5.7, maybe they didn't care about bumping it or hit the same issue. I'll give it another shot later today. Regards.