On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, J.H.M.Dassen wrote: > > Moved /lib/libncurses.so to /usr/lib/libncurses.so. > Mike, I'm not too happy with this. This prevents libreadline.so from > using it, and thus prevents bash from using the shared libreadline. > Can you explain why you moved it?
Sorry, let me explain: I have no intention of moving the ncurses shared object (libncurses.so.3.0) out of /lib. The announcement is apparently a trifle unclear---I guess I've gotten so used to the idea that the .so and the .so.X.X files are different, I just assume everyone sees them as being that different. To clarify: The library itself (libncurses.so.3.0) is staying right where it is (/lib). The symbolic link (libncurses.so) that is used for compiling is being moved to (/usr/lib), so as to help ld (apparently ld is getting confused about having the .a file in one place and the .so file in another --- David Engel's got the details). Sorry to cause the confusion. I hope you don't mind my cc:'ing debian-devel, just to allay anyone else's concerns. Cheers, Mike. -- "I'm a dinosaur. Somebody's digging my bones."
