Re: [arch-general] Why is /lib/libncurses.so a linker script?

On 12/04/17 20:09, Magnus Therning wrote:

Allan McRae writes:

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On 12/04/17 19:33, Magnus Therning wrote:

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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. A