Hello,

currently the book installs the ncurses+gpm combo not in the same way as 
described in the NCurses FAQ:

http://dickey.his.com/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#using_gpm_lib

We compile ncurses in LFS without GPM and then let GPM detect them and replace 
some functions. But in the FAQ above it is recommended to compile GPM 
--without-curses and recompile ncurses --with-gpm. Distros do different 
things, so this may be in fact a non-issue. I remember seeing (but cannot 
find right now) a segfault report when GMP and ncurses are built in the 
LFS/BLFS way.

With NCurses-5.4, this would mean moving GPM libraries to /lib. There is no 
need to do so with ncurses-20050319, they will dlopen libgpm if it is 
present.

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Alexander E. Patrakov
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