getting ncurses built with libtool and creating libncurses++.so

[Jeremy C. Reed]

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I have been trying to get ncurses to build from ncurses-5.3
source to provide libncurses++.so files.

This is under BSD/OS 4.3.1 with a heavily patched libtool-base-1.4. And
g++ from gcc 2.95.3.

I used ./configure --with-libtool option and it did build a
libncurses++.la file, but it has:

# The name that we can dlopen(3).
dlname=''

# Names of this library.
library_names=''

So libncurses++.so* files are not made.

But the libmenu.la, libpanel.la, libform.la, and libncurses.la are fine
and contain (non-blank) dlname and library_names. And the .so files
(shared libaries) for them are created and installed fine.

Anyone have any idea why the ncurses c++ bindings as shared libraries are
not made?

Please let me know if you need any logs or further information.

Thank you,

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/