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Re: termcap bug on Linux



> Yes.

I don't know if I ever received 13988, but I don't think I ever read it.

AB> In such cases I always ask myself - what happens, if a program is linked
AB> against dynamic library? Is it possible to silently exchange 4.2 version
AB> against 5.2 version? That would definitely break a lot of things.

On a sane system the soname should reflect the major number.  So
zsh linked against /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 would not run on
a system with only /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.



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