Messages in this thread | | | From | "Yann E. MORIN" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig | Date | Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:08:14 +0100 |
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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.
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