Comments on: T’info about Dash http://www.cyberspice.org.uk/blog/2009/12/24/tinfo-about-dash/ The life and times of a jet setting software engineer! Mon, 02 May 2011 18:45:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Alice Chapman http://www.cyberspice.org.uk/blog/2009/12/24/tinfo-about-dash/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Alice Chapman Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:11:27 +0000 http://www.cyberspice.org.uk/blog/?p=404#comment-353 The lack of libtinfo.so is not so much a specific Ubuntu oddity, some other distributions don't provide it either. The default behaviour when building NCurses is not to produce a separate libtinfo.so. It is only done when adding the --with-termlib switch to the NCurses configure script when building NCurses. I do agree that linking libtinfo.so explicitly is broken behaviour, as it will not exist with a default shared library build of NCurses. The same issue can arise with libtic.so, which can also be built as a separate library from libncurses.so by use of the --with-ticlib switch. The lack of libtinfo.so is not so much a specific Ubuntu oddity, some other distributions don’t provide it either. The default behaviour when building NCurses is not to produce a separate libtinfo.so. It is only done when adding the –with-termlib switch to the NCurses configure script when building NCurses.

I do agree that linking libtinfo.so explicitly is broken behaviour, as it will not exist with a default shared library build of NCurses.

The same issue can arise with libtic.so, which can also be built as a separate library from libncurses.so by use of the –with-ticlib switch.

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