Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread justin
On 2/28/13 10:35 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > It's not that those systems will be updated to run the latest kernel, but > rather that those systems can be used to build a newer kernel for another > system (think eg. cross-compilation and embedded). > That's true, I will split the patches as

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread Yann E. MORIN
Justin, All, On Thursday 28 February 2013 justin wrote: > On 2/28/13 7:08 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > 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). > > question, will such system be

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread justin
On 2/28/13 7:08 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: > > 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). > Hi, question, will such system be updated then to latest kernel sources? And if so, can't we

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread Yann E. MORIN
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

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread justin
Hello, > 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),

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread justin
Hello, 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

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread Yann E. MORIN
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.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread justin
On 2/28/13 7:08 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: 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). Hi, question, will such system be updated then to latest kernel sources? And if so, can't we

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread Yann E. MORIN
Justin, All, On Thursday 28 February 2013 justin wrote: On 2/28/13 7:08 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: 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). question, will such system be updated

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-28 Thread justin
On 2/28/13 10:35 PM, Yann E. MORIN wrote: It's not that those systems will be updated to run the latest kernel, but rather that those systems can be used to build a newer kernel for another system (think eg. cross-compilation and embedded). That's true, I will split the patches as suggested.

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-27 Thread Yann E. MORIN
Justin, All, On Wednesday 27 February 2013 j...@gentoo.org wrote: > When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from > libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one > additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so. > > Ncurses provides a config

[PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-27 Thread jlec
From: Justin Lecher When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so. Ncurses provides a config script (ncurses5-config) to assist finding ncurses. This

[PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-27 Thread jlec
From: Justin Lecher j...@gentoo.org When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so. Ncurses provides a config script (ncurses5-config) to assist finding

Re: [PATCH 1/2] Use config scripts to detect ncurses libs for menuconfig

2013-02-27 Thread Yann E. MORIN
Justin, All, On Wednesday 27 February 2013 j...@gentoo.org wrote: When building ncurses with --with-termlib several symbols get moved from libncurses.so to libtinfo.so. Thus when linking with libncurses.so, one additionally needs to link with libtinfo.so. Ncurses provides a config script