Thomas Dickey <dickey@xxxxxxx> writes: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > >> * Thomas Dickey wrote on Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:15:12PM CET: >>> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: >>> >>>> 2.57 was released six years ago. I don't think you can expect much help >>> >>> four years as of last week. > > agreed that it's been a while. > > In contrast, I can plug current ncurses libraries into a system that's > built with ncurses 5.0, and just assume it'll work. That's from 1999. That's not a useful comparison. How many new features have been added to ncurses in the last 6 years? Also, try compiling the 6 years old code with a state-of-the-art compiler. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@xxxxxxx SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf