42709 2004-02-23 23:02 0000 libtermcap-compat needs symlink libtermcap.so.2 2004-03-23 16:20:06 0000 1 1 1 Unclassified Gentoo Linux Ebuilds 1.4 All All RESOLVED FIXED P2 critical --- 1 eradicator@gentoo.org base-system@gentoo.org aliz@gentoo.org janus@bananus.dk eradicator@gentoo.org 2004-02-23 23:02:46 0000 qpkg -l libtermcap-compat sys-libs/libtermcap-compat-1.2.3-r1 * CONTENTS: /etc /etc/termcap /lib /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 /lib/libtermcap.so -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8 /usr /usr/lib /usr/lib/libtermcap.a /usr/lib/libtermcap.so /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/libtermcap-compat-1.2.3-r1 /usr/share/doc/libtermcap-compat-1.2.3-r1/README.gz /usr/share/doc/libtermcap-compat-1.2.3-r1/ChangeLog.gz Without it, the following breaks: # cat conftest.c int main() { return 0; } # gcc -o conftest conftest.c -ltermcap # ldd conftest libtermcap.so.2 => not found libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x210b4000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x21097000) Marking critical because this is in stable x86 and blocks postgres from emerging. aliz@gentoo.org 2004-03-17 10:33:50 0000 Fixed in 2.0.8-r1 janus@bananus.dk 2004-03-23 16:20:06 0000 Not sure if this is appropriate here but I had trouble compiling vim because of /lib not being in /etc/ld.so.conf -- and so it could not find libtermcap.so.2 at runtime linking.