[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] ncurses: bump to 5.9

Gustavo Zacarias gustavo at zacarias.com.ar
Thu Jul 26 19:15:15 UTC 2012


On 07/26/12 15:49, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:

> Bumping to 5.9 has two nice side-effects:
> 
>  * It builds fine on noMMU architectures such as Blackfin, which will
>    fix build failures like
>    http://autobuild.buildroot.org/results/cf3e6a95c82b60d63da041293db576a8f21f9136/build-end.log.
> 
>  * It installs a pkg-config file, which will allow gpsd to find
>    ncurses properly, without the need to use ncurses5-config, which
>    means we can get rid of one of our gpsd patches. Thanks to Mike
>    Frysinger for pointing the new --enable-pc-files option.
> 
> After this bump, I build tested a large number of the ncurses reverse
> dependencies we have in Buildroot, and they all built fine.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com>

Nack.
The version bump to 5.8 and 5.9 had issues in the past and still has.
It may compile just fine but it segfaults miserably in a target, chroot
or qemu image.
Simple test, i586 target with external toolchain, build less and see.
Regards.





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