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On 01/20/2016 05:33 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 04:30 -0500, Dengke Du wrote:
>> drop the compatible option --with-abi-version=5
>
> This says what the patch does, but not why.

I had talked with Dengke, we have upgraded ncurses to 6, so remove
--with-abi-version=5 seems better. He had tested world and sdk
build based on oe-core. He will test it based on meta-openembedded.

// Robert

>
> Why should we do this? Does any of our software depend on the v5 ABI?
> How did you test this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Richard
>