Bug 253125

Summary:	broken libcurses.so
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	John Ellson <john.ellson>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
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Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Description John Ellson 2007-08-17 00:25:43 UTC

Description of problem:
/usr/lib64/libcurses.so isn't a shared library.  It contains
just the text:  INPUT(-lncurses)

$ ls -l /usr/lib64/libcurses.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17 2007-08-13 08:21 /usr/lib64/libcurses.so
$ ls -l /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2006-12-24 17:06 /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5 ->
libcurses.so
$ cat /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5
INPUT(-lncurses)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ncurses-devel-5.6-8.20070812.fc8.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. gdb /usr/bin/true
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
gdb: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5: file too
short

Expected results:
not that

Additional info:

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2007-08-17 10:54:07 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 229737 ***

Comment 2 John Ellson 2007-08-17 12:35:20 UTC

But 229737 is marked as "won't fix" !!!

gdb and emacs are broken by curses on x86_64 and nobody plans to fix it ???

Comment 3 Miroslav Lichvar 2007-08-17 12:56:41 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 228891 ***