Re: After upgrade autoconf from 1.13 to 2.57, I experienced some problems - HELP

[Andreas Schwab]

Thomas Dickey <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>
>> * Thomas Dickey wrote on Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 09:15:12PM CET:
>>> On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
>>>
>>>> 2.57 was released six years ago.  I don't think you can expect much help
>>>
>>> four years as of last week.
>
> agreed that it's been a while.
>
> 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
with a state-of-the-art compiler.

Andreas.

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