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Re: libcurses problem

Posted in 2004

Topics: Connectivity: ESQL/C, 4GL & Embedded SQL

Thomas Dickey — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: > "Richard Harnden" <richard.harnden@lineone.net> wrote in message > news:40c6e434$0$6329$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net... >> Neil Truby wrote: >> >> > "Michael Krzepkowski" <mkrzepkowski@hotmail.com> wrote in message >> > news:NDtxc.712920$oR5.335412@pd7tw3no... >> > >> >>Neil Truby wrote: >> >> >> >>>I'm really stuck :-( >> >>>Running Informix 5.20 on SuSE Server 8. >> >>> >> Do you have a link from libncurses.so to libncurses.so.5 ? no. > dell:~ # env | grep LD > LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:/usr/lib:/opt/informix/5.20/lib:/opt/informix/5.20/lib/> esql > dell:~ # cd /lib > dell:/lib # ll libcurses* > ls: libcurses*: No such file or directory > dell:/lib # cd /usr/lib > dell:/usr/lib # ll libcurses* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 8 13:22 libcurses.so -> libncurses.so.5.2 > dell:/usr/lib # ll libncurses* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 410814 Oct 16 2002 libncurses++.a > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 413462 Oct 16 2002 libncurses++w.a > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6125382 Oct 16 2002 libncurses.a > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 8 23:29 libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.4 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 226551 Jul 22 2003 libncurses.so.1.9.7a > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Jun 4 17:03 libncurses.so.2.1 -> libncurses.so.1.9.7a > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 8 14:04 libncurses.so.4 -> libncurses.so.4.2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 298638 Jul 22 2003 libncurses.so.4.2 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Jun 8 14:09 libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.4 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jun 4 17:22 libncursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.5 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 4 17:02 libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.2 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 337823 Oct 16 2002 libncursesw.so.5.2 > dell:/usr/lib # This looks like someone's randomly deleted links without reading the output of ls. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

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Neil Truby — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

"Thomas Dickey" <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote in message news:10cpgkh5g4q9fc4@corp.supernews.com... > Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: > > This looks like someone's randomly deleted links without reading the output > of ls. It does, doesn't it? But how could that have happened? Only a complete idiot would blunder around deleting things without really knowing what he was doing ....

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Thomas Dickey — — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: > "Thomas Dickey" <dickey@saltmine.radix.net> wrote in message > news:10cpgkh5g4q9fc4@corp.supernews.com... >> Neil Truby <neil.truby@ardenta.com> wrote: >> >> This looks like someone's randomly deleted links without reading the > output >> of ls. > It does, doesn't it? > But how could that have happened? > Only a complete idiot would blunder around deleting things without really > knowing what he was doing .... ( a kinder interpretation would place the blame on an install script ;-) -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net

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