curses! foiled again

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:16:41AM -0700, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Foiled again.  Time to investigate...
> 
>   % cd /usr/lib64
>   % ls -l *curses*
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     17 2007-02-19 06:17 libcurses.so
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 2007-02-20 09:30 libcursesw.so -> libncursesw.so
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     27 2007-02-20 09:30 libncurses.so -> ../../lib64/libncurses.so.5
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2006-12-02 10:23 libncurses.so.5 -> libcurses.so
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 2007-02-20 09:30 libncursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.5
>   lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 2007-02-20 09:29 libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.6
>   -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 278536 2007-02-19 06:17 libncursesw.so.5.6
> 
> libncurses.so.5 points to libcurses.so (without an "n") which is,
> indeed, a short file:
> 
>   % cat libcurses.so
>   INPUT(-lncurses)
> 
> That's rather short of the entry points I would ordinarily expect to
> find in a curses library.  Plus it's an ascii file.
> 
> My ncurses packages verify fine, so I don't *think* this is a
> locally-hosed system.

Just rm -f /usr/lib*/libncurses.so.5, perhaps rerun /sbin/ldconfig
and things ought to be fine.  Wonder if ncurses package should delete
this symlink in %post or something similar (though I believe it is just
older rawhide ncurses that would need such a fixup).
/usr/lib*/libcurses.so is now a linker script rather than symlink, because
as the real libncurses.so.5.6 library is in /lib*/ now instead of /usr/lib*/
and libcurses.so was a symlink to libncurses.so, ldconfig kept recreating
the bogus /usr/lib*/libncurses.so.5 symlink.  For details see
#228891.

	Jakub