Folks.
After banging my head against a brick wall trying to get a kernel compile
done on this damn machine {documented in please for help previously}, I've
started a little digging into the ncurses library which seems to be
causing the problem.
It seems I have two versions installed on my machine - one in /lib and one
in /usr/lib as follows.
fred:/lib # ls -l libncur*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 27 2002 libncurses.so.4 ->
libncurses.so.4.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 299565 May 12 2001 libncurses.so.4.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Feb 27 2002 libncurses.so.5 ->
libncurses.so.5.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 319472 May 12 2001 libncurses.so.5.2
fred:/lib #
fred:/usr/lib # ls -l libncur*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 575208 Oct 25 11:14 libncurses++.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3951350 Oct 25 11:14 libncurses.a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Feb 26 16:38 libncurses.so ->
/lib/libncurses.so.5.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 19 2001 libncurses.so.1.9
-> libncurses.so.1.9.7a
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 229580 May 12 2001
libncurses.so.1.9.7a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 19 2001 libncurses.so.2.1
-> libncurses.so.1.9.7a
As you can see, I've got version 4.2 & 5.2 in /lib, and version 1.9.7a in
/usr/lib.
Now the ncurses source archive attempts, by default, to install in
/usr/lib - my question to you learned gentlemen and ladies - could the
current version of the kernel source tree be looking here first, and hence
causing my problems?
Or am I barking up the wrong tree, and having two different versions of
libncurses is perfectly acceptable?
Thanks for any wisdom.
DaZZa
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