On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:21:50PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 02:12:52PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >>Ken Moffat wrote: > >>>I have been told that the LFS instructions can be altered - for > >>>non-wide ncurses add --with-abi-version=5 to create the .so.5 > >>>variant which is what all current binary software links to. > >> > >>OK, I'll take a look. > > > In my 7.8-rc1 system, I did: > > ./configure --prefix=/usr \ > --with-shared \ > --without-normal \ > --without-debug \ > --without-cxx-binding \ > --with-abi-version=5 > > make > > $ ls -l lib/libn* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 Sep 17 16:13 lib/libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.5 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 17 Sep 17 16:13 lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.9 > -rwxrwxr-x 1 378960 Sep 17 16:13 lib/libncurses.so.5.9 > > We only need then > > cp libncurses.so* /usr/lib > > Should I modify the LFS Chapter 6 ncurses note to reflect that? > > -- Bruce For completeness, I've been installing non-wide form, panel, etc. No idea if any binaries reference them, e.g. using dlopen. The non-wide .so potentially conflicts with what we have been doing for from-source packages which might want non-wide, which is why I only installed .so.5* in my modified instructions.
But yes, please change it. ĸen -- Il Porcupino Nil Sodomy Est! (if you will excuse my latatian) aka "The hedgehog song" -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
