Re: New ncurses packages...

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@lot49.med.miami.edu>]

In message <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.91.960120124631.166B-100000@ernie.csn.tu-chemnitz.de>, r
oro writes:
>A solution during the installation process may be:
>  - copy the old shared object into an other directory, e.g. /baz
>  - export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/baz
>  - install new shared object
>  - remove copy in /baz

David E. and Ian J., would one or both of you like to comment on this?
It certainly seems feasible, if awkward.

Have the two of you concocted an easier way for this to be done?

>I think there should be a template for installing/upgrading shared libs to
>avoid the duplicate experiments for lib{c,ncurses,db,gdbm,readline,...}.

I second this heartily.

Mike.
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