Re: Ncurses 4 & 5

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 09:48:23AM +0100, G Hasse wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Alon Oz wrote:
> 
> > If i take all the files from ncurses 5, and only the .so* files
> > from ncurses 4, and stick them together on a machine, will it work
> > with all ncurses 4 and 5 applications? are there any problems
> > with doing this?
> 
> Generally on a Unix system all libraries have version numbers

unfortunately, some people attempt to fool the dynamic loader using symbolic
links.  I seem to recall that at least one of the people who has done packaging
for ncurses has posted newsgroup articles advising people to do exactly that.

I don't see corresponding articles advising people to symlink glibc 2.0.x
to 2.1.x or 2.2.x, which are known to be incompatible.

(perhaps we need a smarter dynamic loader ;-)
 
> 112 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   57026  2 Jan 10:20 libncp.a
>   0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      11  2 Jan 10:20 libncp.so ->
> libncp.so.1
>  86 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   43740  2 Jan 10:20 libncp.so.1
> 122 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   61474  2 Jan 10:20 libncp_p.a
> 816 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  407570  2 Jan 10:19 libncurses.a
>   0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      15  2 Jan 10:19 libncurses.so ->
> libncurses.so.5
> 138 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   70035 30 Maj  2000 libncurses.so.3

this looks rather small, btw - ncurses has been 200-250k since before 1.9.9e
(sometimes referred to as 3.2)

> 528 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  260380  2 Jan 10:19 libncurses.so.5
> 880 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  435426  2 Jan 10:19 libncurses_p.a
>  24 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   11902  2 Jan 10:20 libnetgraph.a
>   0 lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel      16  2 Jan 10:20 libnetgraph.so ->
> libnetgraph.so.1
>  22 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   11092  2 Jan 10:20 libnetgraph.so.1
>  26 -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   12464  2 Jan 10:20 libnetgraph_p.a
> 
> So there should be no problem att all.
> 
> Göran Hasse
> 
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