Justin, All, On Thursday 28 February 2013 justin wrote: > > On a side note: is the old code still useful, now we use the config > > scripts? In other words: are there cases where a ncurses install would > > not provide those scripts? > > > > If the answer is 'no', then just trash the old code away. > > > > I've just tested Debian Squeeze (stable for now), and Cygwin, and they > > both do provide ncurses{,w}5-config. > > > > I looked into the ncurses releases back to 5.0. The first release > containing is version 5.6 released in 2006. So I would guess we can > assume that every system will have it. 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). 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. | '------------------------------^-------^------------------^--------------------' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html