On 28.2.2013 19:16, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > On Thursday 28 February 2013 j...@gentoo.org 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-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
