linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

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Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:08:14 +0100
From:	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
To:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	justin <jlec@...too.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

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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