Bug 74320

Summary:	Symlink missing after emerging ncurses-5.4-r5
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hervé ROMANO <azuri>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	utf8 herd (RETIRED) <utf8>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	base-system
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hervé ROMANO 2004-12-13 13:28:42 UTC

A bug similar to #60920 but for ncurses-5.4-r5.

After emerging, ls complained about missing shared object libncursesw.so.5

A symlink in /lib solved the problem :
ln -s libncurses.so.5 libncursesw.so.5

(don't know if it's the right thing to do, but it works for me)

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Emerge ncurses-5.4-r5
2.Type ls

Actual Results:  
Missing shared object libncursesw.so.5

Expected Results:  
The directory listing :->

I didn't noticed an error message while emerging.

Blocks most terminal programs (emerge, ls, env-update, less ...)

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-12-13 19:59:03 UTC

in other words, you emerged ncurses with USE=unicode and then updated with USE=-unicode ... and you wonder why it's broken ? :p

Comment 2 Hervé ROMANO 2004-12-14 13:51:35 UTC

Sorry, I think your right, but it's strange. 

I almost never change my USE flags. But 2 days ago, I've tried "gtk2-fu" to view what flags could be interesting to set. Apparently it has unset "unicode" (I can't find it anymore in my /etc/make.conf). And I had that problem after an "emerge -auD --newuse world" (logical...)

But a strange thing : in /var/tmp/portage/ncurses-5.4-r5/temp/environment (file generated yesterday, and so the last one), unicode is set in USE!?!

I've emerged again (emerge -auDv --newuse") with unicode correctly set and everything is fine : libncursesw.so.5 is symlinked to libncursesw.so.5.4.