Ncurses shared libs will eb installed with wrong version number

[Meino Christian Cramer]

Hi,

 AFFECTED NCURSES VERSION:
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 ncurses-5.2.tar.gz



 HOW TO REPRODUCE THE BUG:
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 - unpack the archive
 - cd in to the archives root directory
 - apply the following configuration:

   ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared --without-normal --without-debug 
--with-libtool
   make

 - then submit the followng command:

   find . -name 'libncurses*'

 - Look at the output :-)



 WHAT IS WRONG:
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 The shared libraries are named 

    libncurses.so.5.0.2

 instead of
 
    libncurses.so.5.2




 WHAT EFFECT THE BUG HAS:
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 Installing the libs with 'make install' and a 'ldconfig' as root
 under Linux will leave the old libraries "libncurses.5.1" in place.
 Many installed ncurses based programs (tset, reset etc) will be no
 longer functional


 VERSIONS OF BUILD TOOLS:
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 GNU ld version 2.10.91 (with BFD 2.10.0.33)
  Supported emulations:
   elf_i386
   i386linux
 
 gcc-2.95.2

 Linux 2.4.0-test9

 automake (GNU automake) 1.4

 Autoconf version 2.13






 Unfortunately I cannot find any what produces this bug. As it seems,
 ./ncurses/base/version.c is set correctly....

 If I could do anything else to trace down the bug, email me!

 Thanks a lot for any help in advance!

  keep hacking the right site of life ! :-)
  Meino