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

[Magnus Therning]

Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> 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?

/M

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