In debian, libncurses.so is not installed unless libncurses-dev is also
installed. Therefore, programs should open libncurses.so.5 directly.
However, this is not possible with ltdl_openext. Would a patch be
accepted to extend ltdl_openext("libncurses.5") like this:
- of course, opening "libncurses.5" tries to open libncurses.5.so and
libncurses.5.la first
- on some systems it might succeed, as on Darwin. on other it will
fail, but it will recognize the soversion suffix and try to open
libncurses.so.5.
- failing to do so, it will try libncurses.la and check the current/age
items to detect if the library supports that soversion.
Paolo
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