Re: [PATCH] menuconfig: use config scripts to detect ncurses libs

[Yann E. MORIN]

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@xxxxxxxxxx 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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