From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759966Ab3B1SIU (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:08:20 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f46.google.com ([74.125.82.46]:42461 "EHLO mail-wg0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753654Ab3B1SIT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:08:19 -0500 From: "Yann E. MORIN" Organization: BZH lan To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:08:14 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/3.8.0-treguer; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: justin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <201302271937.49565.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <512F24CC.2090906@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <512F24CC.2090906@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201302281908.14787.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | Yann E. MORIN | Real-Time Embedded | /"\ ASCII RIBBON | Erics' conspiracy: | | +33 662 376 056 | Software Designer | \ / CAMPAIGN | ___ | | +33 223 225 172 `------------.-------: X AGAINST | \e/ There is no | | http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/ | _/*\_ | / \ HTML MAIL | v conspiracy. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'