Bug 20670 - libtermcap.so from libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-25 doesn4t export any symbols
Summary: libtermcap.so from libtermcap-devel-2.0.8-25 doesn4t export any symbols
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: libtermcap
Version: 7.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Petr Raszyk
QA Contact: Jay Turner
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-11-11 03:08 UTC by Fritz Elfert
Modified: 2015-01-07 23:42 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: libtermcap 2.0.8 Release 42.1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-12-19 14:40:32 UTC
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Description Fritz Elfert 2000-11-11 03:08:59 UTC 
Some users of my plptools package (http://plptools.sourceforge.net)
complain that this is not compilable under RH 7.0. It uses GNU readline
which in turn usually needs libtermcap
for some termcap stuff. On RH7.0, libtermcap.so doesn4t export any symbols
?! (Try a nm and you4ll see yourself.) Resulting from that, libreadline
doesn4t depend on libtermcap and therefore linkage fails. On my older RH
system, nm libtermcap exports among others
the symbols BC, PC and UP which are needed by libreadline and also a ldd
libreadline.so
shows correct depencies. On RH7.0 ldd libreadline.so only lists libc and
ld-linux.

Thanks
 -Fritz
Comment 1 Petr Raszyk 2005-12-19 14:40:32 UTC 
In current release (libtermcap-2.0.8, FEDORA CORE)
libtermcap defines and exports BC, PC and UP.
It does not set a value of these 'globals'.
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