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

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Jul 26 20:33:02 UTC 2012


Le Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:15:15 -0300,
Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar> a écrit :

> > 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.

Yes, I just did some runtime testing, and also faced segfaults. Now
that you say it, I also remember what you said.

Thanks!

Thomas
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