Re: BUG: When compile ncurses-5.6 in Fedora 6, it prints "WARN: kernel too old(20612 < 20617)"

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, ?????? wrote:

> Hello,
>       When I compile ncurses-5.6 in my Linux PC(Fedora 6, kernel version
> 2.6.18), it prints 6 lines warning message as follow.
>                  WARN: kernel too old(20612 < 20617)
>                  WARN: kernel too old(20612 < 20617)
>                  WARN: kernel too old(20612 < 20617)
>                  .......
>     I track the compile process and found that, when run "/bin/sh
> misc/run_tic.sh", it prints above message.
>     Below is my configure message:
>                ./configure --with-softfloat --with-termlib --with-shared
> --prefix=$PREFIX \
>
> --with-terminfo-dirs=/etc/terminfo:/usr/share/terminfo:/lib/terminfo
>
>     Could you please tell my why it prints that warning message?
>     Thanks a lot.

run_tic.sh is a shell script which calls several programs - perhaps Fedora 
has one of those which is objecting to one of their respective 
command-line options (sed for instance, though no related bugs come to 
mind).  You might be able to narrow it down by running the script with the 
-x option, to trace it.

ncurses 5.7 is the current release - but the shell script hasn't changed 
for two years, so whatever is amiss would probably apply to current code.

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