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Re: lynx-dev Mouse support on the console?
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T.E.Dickey |
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Re: lynx-dev Mouse support on the console? |
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Tue, 18 Jan 100 15:15:20 -0500 (EST) |
>
> T.E.Dickey <address@hidden> said:
>
> > configure --with-shared
> > make install
> >
> > That will leave the file libncurses.so.4 intact, install a libncurses.so.5,
> > and make the /usr/lib/ncurses.so link point to the latter. So applications
> > which are compiled and linked thereafter will (normally) run with the
> > version
> > 5 libraries.
>
>
> Did what you said and annoyingly Lynx this time linked to *both* the old
> libncurses.so.4.2 in /lib and the newly compiled libncurses.so.5.0 in
> /usr/lib, the result: Still no mouse support!
perhaps libgpm was linked to the version-4 library?
(I check those with ldd, which can be fooled, but usually gives good info)
ldd /usr/lib/libgpm.so
> So now I have cruelly renamed the old libncurses.so.4.2 shared library into
> oblivion and made a symlink of that name to libncurses.so.5.0 and
> recompiled Lynx and now mouse support works!
good (I guess ;-)
> Geez, why does it have to be so much trouble ;-)
It used to be worse - before 4.2 we didn't link to the exact version of
the C runtime library (in part because no one cared until the introduction
of glibc2).
> Thanks for your help.
no problem.
>
>
> Morten
>
>
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