On Thu, 24 Dec 2009, Alice Kærast wrote:
> Would it be an idea to include the libtinfo.so.5 symlink in libncurses5?
> Is there any reason it would cause any problems?
ncurses' configure script generates that link - but only if it's
configured to generate the separate library. As I understand it,
there's two things that might be helped by adding it to point to
the single ncurses+tinfo library:
a) if there happened to be some _binary_-compatible application
in a package from another system, where that library was used.
b) to appease configure-scripts or makefiles that look for that
library.
I don't recall any examples of (a) being presented, and have seen some
cases of (b). For (b), the usual advice is to fix the configure-script
or makefile, rather than encourage non-portable code.
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Ncurses package does not contain libtinfo
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