Re: Ncurses shared libs will eb installed with wrong version number

[Thomas Dickey]

I can't change the behavior of libtool.  (I'm curious why the implementors
of libtool deliberately chose to make their version number scheme incompatible
with everyone else).

On Sat, Oct 28, 2000 at 10:22:32AM +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  AFFECTED NCURSES VERSION:
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  ncurses-5.2.tar.gz
> 
> 
> 
>  HOW TO REPRODUCE THE BUG:
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  - unpack the archive
>  - cd in to the archives root directory
>  - apply the following configuration:
> 
>    ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared --without-normal --without-debug 
> --with-libtool
>    make
> 
>  - then submit the followng command:
> 
>    find . -name 'libncurses*'
> 
>  - Look at the output :-)
> 
> 
> 
>  WHAT IS WRONG:
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  The shared libraries are named 
> 
>     libncurses.so.5.0.2
> 
>  instead of
>  
>     libncurses.so.5.2
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  WHAT EFFECT THE BUG HAS:
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  Installing the libs with 'make install' and a 'ldconfig' as root
>  under Linux will leave the old libraries "libncurses.5.1" in place.
>  Many installed ncurses based programs (tset, reset etc) will be no
>  longer functional
> 
> 
>  VERSIONS OF BUILD TOOLS:
>  ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  GNU ld version 2.10.91 (with BFD 2.10.0.33)
>   Supported emulations:
>    elf_i386
>    i386linux
>  
>  gcc-2.95.2
> 
>  Linux 2.4.0-test9
> 
>  automake (GNU automake) 1.4
> 
>  Autoconf version 2.13
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Unfortunately I cannot find any what produces this bug. As it seems,
>  ./ncurses/base/version.c is set correctly....
> 
>  If I could do anything else to trace down the bug, email me!
> 
>  Thanks a lot for any help in advance!
> 
>   keep hacking the right site of life ! :-)
>   Meino  
> 
> 
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