Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 12/04/17 20:09, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> On 12/04/17 19:33, Magnus Therning wrote: >>>> I'm just curious what the reason is. >>> >>> Because absolutely everything should link to the wide character version. >> >> Wouldn't a symbolic link have the same result? >> > > Then you get some software thinking its linked to libncurses.so and > some thinking its linked to libncursesw.so. Because they are the same > thing, conflict occur and shit hits the fan. I don't see how. In *both* cases `ldd` will show that the executable is linked against libncurses.so, and in both cases the runtime linker will actually load libncursesw.so (in the case of a link, it follows it; in case of a linker script, it interprets it). To me it seems the outcome is identical: libncursesw.so.6.0 is loaded into the process. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0x927912051716CE39 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use Haskell.” Now their problem is entirely academic.
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