From: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>,
jlec@gentoo.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs
Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 21:13:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201303032113.47632.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513095F6.2010000@suse.cz>
Michal, All,
On Friday 01 March 2013 Michal Marek wrote:
> On 28.2.2013 19:16, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 February 2013 jlec@gentoo.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.
> >
> > 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.
Yes, we want to keep support for old systems, indeed.
Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-03-03 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-28 11:52 jlec
2013-02-28 18:16 ` Yann E. MORIN
2013-02-28 21:35 ` justin
2013-03-01 11:50 ` Michal Marek
2013-03-03 20:13 ` Yann E. MORIN [this message]
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