Bug 42950 – Application compiled with RH6.2 libncurses.4.so will not run on RH7.1.

Bug 42950 - Application compiled with RH6.2 libncurses.4.so will not run on RH7.1.

Summary:	Application compiled with RH6.2 libncurses.4.so will not run on RH7.1.

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	ncurses (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.1
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
QA Contact:	Aaron Brown
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Reported:	2001-05-30 18:26 EDT by Need Real Name
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:33 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2001-05-30 18:26:05 EDT
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Description Need Real Name 2001-05-30 18:26:01 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i586)

Description of problem:
Application (Linux General Ledger) is compiled with RH6.2 and
libncurses.4.  When attempting to run under 7.1 you must first copy
libncurses.5.so to libncurses.4.so, if libncurses.4.so is not already
installed.  This problem has not been noted with other distributions.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compile a C/C++ program including curses code under 6.2 using -lncurses.
2.Try to run binary under 7.1.
3. You may also download the Linux General Ledger demo version from
www.linuxledgers.com (free) and try to run it rather than write your own
curses code.
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2001-05-31 03:29:14 EDT

Install the ncurses4 compat package.
Symlinking/copying libncurses.so.5 to libncurses.so.4 will work in many cases, 
but segfault in some others: There are binary incompatibilities in some very 
rarely used functions.

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