From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: justin <jlec@gentoo.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:08:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201302281908.14787.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <512F24CC.2090906@gentoo.org>
Justin, All,
On Thursday 28 February 2013 justin wrote:
> > On a side note: is the old code still useful, now we use the config
> > scripts? In other words: are there cases where a ncurses install would
> > not provide those scripts?
> >
> > If the answer is 'no', then just trash the old code away.
> >
> > I've just tested Debian Squeeze (stable for now), and Cygwin, and they
> > both do provide ncurses{,w}5-config.
> >
>
> I looked into the ncurses releases back to 5.0. The first release
> containing is version 5.6 released in 2006. So I would guess we can
> assume that every system will have it.
Well, RHEL4 is still widely used, and it was released in 2005, so will
not have ncurses-5.6 (updates may have it, but not everybody installs
updates).
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-28 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-27 18:07 [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig jlec
2013-02-27 18:07 ` [PATCH 2/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for nconfig jlec
2013-02-27 19:02 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-02-28 9:48 ` justin
2013-02-28 17:58 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-02-27 18:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig Yann E. MORIN
2013-02-28 9:35 ` justin
2013-02-28 18:08 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
2013-02-28 21:31 ` justin
2013-02-28 21:35 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-02-28 21:38 ` justin
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