Chris Staub wrote:
> In Chapter 6, there is this set of commands...
>
> for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do \
> rm -vf /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \
> echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" >/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \
> ln -sfv lib${lib}w.a /usr/lib/lib${lib}.a ; \
> done
> ln -sfv libncurses++w.a /usr/lib/libncurses++.a
>
> Finally, make sure that old applications that look for -lcurses at build
> time are still buildable:
>
> rm -vf /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
> echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" >/usr/lib/libcursesw.so
> ln -sfv libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so
> ln -sfv libncursesw.a /usr/lib/libcursesw.a
> ln -sfv libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a
>
> The for loop in the 1st set of commands creates (among other things)
> libcurses.so and libcurses.a. However, both of these are overwritten by
> the ln commands that follow, so it looks like including "curses" in the
> for loop is redundant.
>
It looks like that.
> Also, the rm commands in the for loop don't do anything, since all the
> installed ncurses libs end in "w".
>
They were required in the past for correct reinstallation of ncurses.
Maybe this is no longer true. I will be happy with any simplification
that does teh same as the old commands both for the case of the clean
installation and reinstallation.
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Alexander E. Patrakov
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