Problem linking with libtermcap!

[Carnage <S566@aacci.aacc.cc.md.us>]

Hello Mailing List!,

	I seem to be having a problem linking with the Termcap library
when specifying "-ltermcap" on the gcc command line.

	Explicitly specifying libtermcap works fine (i.e. "gcc -o program
program.o module1.o /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8").  But doing a "-ltermcap"
results in ld saying that it can't open it!  

	I have a copy of "libtermcap.so.2.0.8" in my "/lib" directory.  I
also have a "libtermcap.so.2" symlinked to it in that directory;
presumably placed there by ldconfig, because I didn't put it there.  Doing
a "ldconfig -v" verifies this, because "libtermcap.so.2 =>
libtermcap.so.2.0.8" gets listed.

	Anybody have any ideas?  The current workaround right now is
simply explicityly specifying libtermcap.so.2.0.8 on the gcc command line.
But this is a pain in the butt when compiling other people's programs
which uses termcap.

	I'm using Debian GNU/Linux v1.1, libc v5.4.13, gcc v2.7.2, and
I'm not really sure which version of ld.so I'm using (I guess the one
that's in Debian 1.1), but the version of ld I'm using (as reported by ld
-v) is v2.6).

	Thanks in advance for any help with this!

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Arcadio Alivio Sincero, Jr.
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