ncurses

[Peter Hicks <Peter.Hicks@POGGS.CO.UK>]

All,

I have an Ultra 10 here running sid.  After some updates a week or so 
ago, I can't recompile my kernel.  Investigation shows that "make 
menuconfig" fails because -lncurses can't be found.

Here's /usr/lib:

archway:/usr/lib# ls -l libncurses.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Jan  4 14:12 libncurses.so -> 
/lib/libncurses.so.5
archway:/usr/lib# ls -l libncurses.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Dec 13 19:56 libncurses.so.5 
-> libtermcap.so
archway:/usr/lib# ls -l libtermcap.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jan  4 14:12 libtermcap.so -> 
libncurses.so
archway:/usr/lib# ls -l libncurses.so
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Jan  4 14:12 libncurses.so -> 
/lib/libncurses.so.5
archway:/usr/lib# ls -l libncurses.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Dec 13 19:56 libncurses.so.5 
-> libtermcap.so

libncurses.so points to libncurses.so.5, which points to libtermcap.so, 
which points back to libncurses.so.

Looking in /lib:

archway:/lib# ls -l libncurses.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Dec 13 20:00 libncurses.so.5 
-> libncurses.so.5.3
archway:/lib# ls -l libncurses.so.5.3
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       290876 Nov  8 00:16 libncurses.so.5.3

Finally, looking in /lib64:

archway:/lib64# ls -l libncurses.so.5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Dec 13 20:01 libncurses.so.5 
-> libncurses.so.5.3
archway:/lib64# ls -l libncurses.so.5.3
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       387488 Nov  8 00:16 libncurses.so.5.3

Is it safe for me to remove the duff symlinks in /usr/lib?  I can't 
track down what caused this breakage, so I can't open a bug against any 
particular package.


Peter.