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

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