From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760598Ab3B1Vff (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:35:35 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]:39725 "EHLO mail-wg0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755665Ab3B1Vfc (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:35:32 -0500 From: "Yann E. MORIN" Organization: BZH lan To: justin Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 22:35:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/3.8.0-treguer; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <201302281908.14787.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <512FCCBA.7000404@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <512FCCBA.7000404@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201302282235.28016.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 2/28/13 7:08 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > 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). > > question, will such system be updated then to latest kernel sources? And > if so, can't we require that for the ncurses based config menus need > newer ncurses? It's not that those systems will be updated to run the latest kernel, but rather that those systems can be used to build a newer kernel for another system (think eg. cross-compilation and embedded). 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. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'