[gentoo-user] newboat loading wrong library path

[Caveman Al Toraboran]

hi:

    shell> newsboat
    newsboat: error while loading shared libraries: libstfl.so.0: cannot open 
shared object file: No such file or directory

    shell> ls /usr/lib64/libstfl.so* -lh
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  15 May 10 15:27 /usr/lib64/libstfl.so -> 
libstfl.so.0.24*
    -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 80K May 10 15:27 /usr/lib64/libstfl.so.0.24*

if i manually link the lib to libstfl.so.0, it
works normally.

any idea what's causing this issue?  (or how to
find what's the cause?)

(and thanks for your time)

rgrds,
cm.