zsh and ncurses dependency

zsh and ncurses dependency

[Daniel Qarras]

Hi,

I found out (from RH Bugzilla) that zsh is linked against ncurses.so
that usually lives under /usr/lib. This is very problematic if you are
using /bin/zsh as an emergency shell on a system that has not yet mount
/usr. Is there any way to avoid this? The report describing this in
more detail is at:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154395

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Re: zsh and ncurses dependency

[Nikolai Weibull]

On 9/5/06, Daniel Qarras <dqarras@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I found out (from RH Bugzilla) that zsh is linked against ncurses.so
> that usually lives under /usr/lib. This is very problematic if you are
> using /bin/zsh as an emergency shell on a system that has not yet mount
> /usr. Is there any way to avoid this? The report describing this in
> more detail is at:

Isn't ncurses.so usually installed in /lib for precisely this reason?

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Re: zsh and ncurses dependency

[Miek Gieben]

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[On 05 Sep, @21:34, Daniel Qarras wrote in "zsh and ncurses dependency ..."]
> Hi,
> 
> I found out (from RH Bugzilla) that zsh is linked against ncurses.so
> that usually lives under /usr/lib. This is very problematic if you are
> using /bin/zsh as an emergency shell on a system that has not yet mount

Not so under Ubuntu/Debian:

% ldd =zsh
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00002aaaaabc2000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x00002aaaaacc4000)
        libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00002aaaaadda000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00002aaaaaf36000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00002aaaab0bc000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00002aaaaaaab000)

looks to be a distro thing,

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