Bug 253125 - broken libcurses.so
Summary: broken libcurses.so
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 228891
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ncurses
Version: rawhide
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miroslav Lichvar
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-08-17 00:25 UTC by John Ellson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:12 UTC (History)
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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-08-17 12:56:41 UTC
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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 ***
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