From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753478Ab3CCUNx (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Mar 2013 15:13:53 -0500 Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:39816 "EHLO mail-wg0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753275Ab3CCUNw (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Mar 2013 15:13:52 -0500 From: "Yann E. MORIN" Organization: BZH lan To: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 21:13:47 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/3.8.0-treguer; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Michal Marek , jlec@gentoo.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <201302281916.00257.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> <513095F6.2010000@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <513095F6.2010000@suse.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201303032113.47632.yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- .-----------------.--------------------.------------------.--------------------. | 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. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------'