Re: Problem linking with libtermcap!
Put a link in libtermcap.so to the version you want (Note the ending is
`so'. I guessing the binutils new default behaviour accounts for
this.
-Walter
On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Carnage wrote:
> 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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