[Buildroot] svn commit: trunk/buildroot/package/ncurses

Hamish Moffatt hamish at cloud.net.au
Thu Apr 10 09:10:51 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:06:29AM +0200, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
> >>>>> "Nigel" == Nigel Kukard <nkukard at lbsd.net> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  >> Should be /usr/lib rather than /lib?
> 
>  Nigel> The rest of the libs are being installed to /lib ... I don't like
>  Nigel> changing install paths, but I agree with you it should be /usr/lib ...
>  Nigel> anyone got any very good reason why ncurses should be installed in /lib?
> 
> The basic libncurses.co* is normally installed in /lib, but the extra
> libs are in /usr/lib, E.G. on my Debian machine:

bash and more (and most other shells in /bin) uses libncurses, so it
needs to be in /lib on a typical system. (On a buildroot system those
would normally be provided by busybox instead).

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>



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