Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:50:14 +0100 | From | Michal Marek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs |
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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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