[Buildroot] [PATCH] ncurses: version bump to 5.8

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Mon Apr 4 19:28:38 UTC 2011


>>>>> "Mike" == Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org> writes:

Hi,

 >> Ok, odd. I do see several gentoo bugs related to ncurses 5.8 though
 >> (rtorrent, vifm).

 Mike> seems like all the logged gentoo bugs are issues in the packages
 Mike> and not ncurses

Somewhat true. Looking at the Debian bugs I see ncurses 5.8 fails on
newwin(0, 0, 0, 0) which it shouldn't - That's fixed post 5.8 though.

 Mike> did you have a particular app you were running from BR that
 Mike> exhibited the issue ?

Well, everything I tried:

- python with it's readline module
- less
- dialog

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard



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