linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: fix extended colors ncurses support

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Message-ID: <20121120122906.GA25677@shrek.podlesie.net>
Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:29:06 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@...lesie.net>
To:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: fix extended colors ncurses support

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:53:28AM +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 06:18:22PM +0200, Krzysztof Mazur wrote:
> > The ncurses library allows for extended colors. The support for extended
> > colors support depends on wide-character support. ncurses headers
> > enable extended colors (NCURSES_EXT_COLORS) only when wide-character
> > support is enabled (NCURSES_WIDECHAR).
> > 
> > The "make menuconfig" uses wide-character ncursesw library, which can be
> > compiled with wide-character support, but does not define NCURSES_WIDECHAR
> > and it's using headers without wide-character (and extended colors) support.
> > 
> > This fixes problems with colors on systems with enabled extended colors
> > (like PLD Linux). Without this patch "make menuconfig" is hard to use.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Mazur <krzysiek@...lesie.net>
> 
> 
> Applied to kbuild.git#kconfig, thanks.
> 
> Michal

Thanks,

Krzysiek
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