Marc Glisse wrote: > (I know it is too late to comment) > >> With wide char supported, there is only >> libncursesw.so instead of >> libncurses.so. > > I thought there should be either libncurses.so.5 or libncursesw.so.5, never > mind which (it could even be a weirder name), but it would be most convenient > to provide both libncurses.so and libncursesw.so symlinks.
.so is the compliation symlink that is required for -lncurses to work. The .x number after the .so doesn't really matter and really doesn't provide the "protection" for multiple versions that people think it sometimes does. -- Darren J Moffat