Re: lynx-dev Mouse support on the console?

[T.E.Dickey]

> 
> T.E.Dickey <address@hidden> said: 
>  
> >     configure --with-shared 
> >     make install 
> >    
> > That will leave the file libncurses.so.4 intact, install a libncurses.so.5, 
> > and make the /usr/lib/ncurses.so link point to the latter.  So applications 
> > which are compiled and linked thereafter will (normally) run with the 
> > version 
> > 5 libraries. 
>  
>  
> Did what you said and annoyingly Lynx this time linked to *both* the old 
> libncurses.so.4.2 in /lib and the newly compiled libncurses.so.5.0 in 
> /usr/lib, the result: Still no mouse support! 

perhaps libgpm was linked to the version-4 library?
(I check those with ldd, which can be fooled, but usually gives good info)
        ldd /usr/lib/libgpm.so
  
> So now I have cruelly renamed the old libncurses.so.4.2 shared library into 
> oblivion and made a symlink of that name to libncurses.so.5.0 and 
> recompiled Lynx and now mouse support works! 

good (I guess ;-)
  
> Geez, why does it have to be so much trouble ;-) 

It used to be worse - before 4.2 we didn't link to the exact version of
the C runtime library (in part because no one cared until the introduction
of glibc2).
  
> Thanks for your help. 

no problem.
>  
>  
> Morten 
>  
>  


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