My thanks to Paul Roetman, Chewy and Hoai Tran for replying so quickly.
The basic gist was no, the libcurses libraries between version 4 and 5 are
not compatiable. I was in the process of hunting around for some I could
install when I bumped into an sys admin for another department who put me
on another trail.
The version 5 libcurses were already installed under
/usr/shlib/libcurses.so, but programs were asking for it in
/usr/shlib/osf.1/libcurses.so It turned out to be because the program were
"standard" installs that had been compilied under version 4.0 Rather than
face the hassle of having to recompile and install the programs for our
version 5 machines and then run seperate mounts for v4 and v5 (Probably the
preferred option). I just left the version 4 libcurses.so in
/usr/shlib/osf.1 He thinks that version 4 apps will look for it there and
version 5 apps will look for it un /usr/shlib.
How good a solution this is, I have not idea, but I'm just happy it all
seems to work...
Cheers,
Ryan.
At 18:03 28/08/2000 +0000, Ryan McConigley wrote:
>
> Hi, I have recently been having some problems with one of our machines.
>It was upgraded from Tru64 version 4 to version 5 (disclaimer - before I
>Started here) and now several programs have "issues" For example, if you
>go to load pico you get an error that looks like -
>
>67552:/usr/local/utils/bin/pico: /sbin/loader: Fatal Error: object
>libcurses.so from liblist in /usr/local/utils/bin/pico has version "osf.1",
>which does not match the found object: /usr/shlib/libcurses.so (with
>version "xpg4")
>
> I did some research and discovered that libcurses.so is not installed with
>version 5. I have cheated slightly and copied over the library from a
>version 4 installation, but I am wondering if this is acceptable or if
>there is a more "correct" way to install it properly.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ryan.
>
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