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. > > As you said, ncurses started bundling these files with ncurses-5.6, > which was released in 2006. > > 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. Michal -- 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
