linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

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Message-ID: <513095F6.2010000@suse.cz>
Date:	Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:50:14 +0100
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>
To:	"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@...e.fr>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, jlec@...too.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [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@...too.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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