Darren J Moffat wrote: > 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 > > .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. >
But note that we do have a "Library Best Practice" that lays down expectations for this sort of thing. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/bestpractices/bp-libraries/ -John
