So I will update the materials accordingly using lib*.so as libraries names.
-rick Stefan Teleman wrote: > > > Danek Duvall wrote: >> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:11:29PM +0800, Rick Ju wrote: >> >>> With wide char supported, there is only libncursesw.so instead of >>> libncurses.so. >> >> I think the intent was that you'd deliver both libraries. However, it >> might be interesting to investigate building with wide character >> support, >> but calling the library libncurses. I believe that the reason there are >> two libraries, normally, is because the two are binary incompatible, the >> non-wide-char variant has a long history, and the author doesn't want to >> break incompatibility. > > That's how it's "usually done". The wide-char version supports > non-wide-chars just fine (the inverse is however not true). > > So, installing the lib*.w.so libraries as lib*.so works. The only > detail to keep in mind is that the Makefiles will set by default the > SONAME to lib*w.so, so patches are needed for the Makefiles for the > wide-char versions to change the SONAMEs to the corresponding lib*.so. > > --Stefan >
