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| From: | Thomas Dickey |
| Subject: | Re: After upgrade autoconf from 1.13 to 2.57, I experienced some problems - HELP |
| Date: | Wed, 6 Dec 2006 19:38:26 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:In contrast, I can plug current ncurses libraries into a system that's built with ncurses 5.0, and just assume it'll work. That's from 1999.That's not a useful comparison. How many new features have been added to ncurses in the last 6 years? Also, try compiling the 6 years old code
A lot more than autoconf. Run a diff and compare.
with a state-of-the-art compiler.
Again, works better than you're insinuating. (I maintain a set of test libraries for lynx regression builds - back to ncurses 1.8.7 - and have to periodically rebuild them due to ABI slippage in glibc ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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