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SubjectRe: [PATCH] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs
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


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