Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

From: Yann E. MORIN
Date: Thu Feb 28 2013 - 16:35:38 EST


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.

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