On 02/07/2014 09:52 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > I'm looking at the things which the TeX Live binary installer links > to on a 7.4 system. Mostly, all is fine (LFS libs, and X-related > libs), but for asy [ asymptote ] and xindy.run, ldd reported that > libncurses.so.5 was not found. > > It seems eminently possible that this problem is "mine, all mine" > (I've maybe fubar'd the non-wide part, I don't normally run > precompiled binaries) and I get to keep all the pieces. > > But a quick look in LFS (without spending a lot of time on the > detail, my brain is already severely frazzled with TeX) suggests > that we only create libncurses.so.5 in /lib. > > I tried copying /usr/lib/libncurses.so [ INPUT(-lncursesw) ] to > /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5, ldd reported 'file too short'. Same if I > symlinked .so.5 to .so. What works for me is > > ln -sv /lib/libncursesw.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 > > ĸen >
I wouldn't recommend that. They're binary incompatible. It might work sometimes, but not always. LFS has a seperate note at the end of chap6 ncurses page that if non-widec libraries are required what to do. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
