I initially screwed up the linking of the ncurses libraries in
chapter 6. After re-reading the ncurses section I have the following
questions and comments:
First, why is the command
ln -sf ../../lib/liblibncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
used instead of
ln -sf /lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
? The first command is unclear and and makes a link that would be
incorrect if /usr/lib/libncurses.so were moved or copied to another
directory for some reason. The second command clearly conveys the
point.
Second, why is /usr/lib/libncurses.so linked to /lib/libncurses.so.5
(which is a link itself) instead of the actual library
/lib/libncurses.so.5.4 ? Is this for upgrade compatability? If so,
why isn't there simply a /lib/libncurses.so which is linked to
/lib/libncurses.so.5.4?
Thanks,
- Joe
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