Re: [PATCH] Have menuconfig use ncursesw

From: Alistair John Strachan
Date: Sat Dec 24 2005 - 16:53:50 EST


On Saturday 24 December 2005 21:42, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> on vgacon (standard tty1 stuff) with UTF8 enabled, running make menuconfig
> gives ascii-art lines `a la + - and |. I use the following patch to get
> back the line graphics from the upper part of the font. AFAICS this should
> have no impact on non-utf consoles. Include it in mainline?
>

Not everybody has libncursesw, therefore such a patch should runtime detect
whether such a library is available before unconditionally linking against
it.

--
Cheers,
Alistair.

'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.'
Third year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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