FS#25877 - [ncurses] use symlinks instead of linker scripts to point to the 'wide' variants

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Patrick Palka (orlandu63) - Saturday, 03 September 2011, 15:27 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 04 September 2011, 00:02 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Currently trivial linker scripts are used to point e.g /usr/lib/ncurses.so to /usr/lib/ncursesw.so. However this is a non-standard configuration and it breaks applications that use `dlopen` to load ncurses, as it can't handle linker scripts. Why not use symlinks instead?
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 04 September 2011, 00:02 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 04 September 2011, 00:01 GMT
It is not particularly non-standard... both Fedora and Gentoo use similar linker scripts (and they were the only two distros I checked). Linker scripts are far more robust (especially when cross compiling) that symlinks. Also, dlopening unversioned libraries is just wrong...

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