Re: Redundancy in ncurses installation

2006-01-29 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > >> This is NOT safe if either of those library files are currently >> linked into any process that's running! >> > They are not used. Certainly :) > > The used file may be /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (which is a symlink > pointing to 5.5). If it's

Re: Redundancy in ncurses installation

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bryan Kadzban wrote: Chris Staub wrote: The Chapter 6 ncurses instructions in the LFS dev book have this construction: for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do \ rm -vf /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" >/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ ln -sfv lib${lib}w

Re: Redundancy in ncurses installation

2006-01-29 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Chris Staub wrote: > The Chapter 6 ncurses instructions in the LFS dev book have this > construction: > > for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do \ > rm -vf /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ > echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" >/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ > ln -sfv lib${lib}w.a /usr/lib

Re: Redundancy in ncurses installation

2006-01-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: I reinstalled ncurses over itself successfully. I'm not sure what you want me to "verify" - should I have seen an error? I wanted you to verify that libncursesw.so.5.5 is in /lib and has the right size (several hundred kilobytes), that there is a symlink /lib/libncursesw.s

Re: Redundancy in ncurses installation

2006-01-28 Thread Chris Staub
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Chris Staub wrote: The Chapter 6 ncurses instructions in the LFS dev book have this construction: for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do \ rm -vf /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" >/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ ln -sfv l

Re: Redundancy in ncurses installation

2006-01-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: The Chapter 6 ncurses instructions in the LFS dev book have this construction: for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do \ rm -vf /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" >/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \ ln -sfv lib${lib}w.a /usr/lib/lib${lib}