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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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Mon, 17 Jan 100 17:17:00 -0500 (EST) |
> Thanks for your generous help.
>
> This stuff is giving me grey hairs: I fetched ncurses ver. 5.0, compiled it
> --with-gpm and installed it (the ncurses installation apparently defaults to
> just overwriting the old one so I took a chance and my system works fine)
from 4.2, or Redhat 6.0/6.1? (there are changes, but the shared library
has a different version number, so there shouldn't be a problem - ignore
those people who tell you to symlink version 4 apps to version 5 to save
diskspace ;-)
> Anyway, Lynx mouse-support on the console still doesn't work so I have a
> couple of further questions:
>
> The ncurses compilation has created the following libs
>
> libform.a libmenu.a libncurses++.a libncurses_g.a libpanel_g.a
> libform_g.a libmenu_g.a libncurses.a libpanel.a
>
> and they're all installed in /usr/lib
Those are all static libraries. Linux's linker is a little obtuse about
linking to static libraries when shared libraries are available. (The
-static and -dynamic options are buggy). For your purposes, you should
have done
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.
> Morten
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