> > > > Yes, test was broken, sorry. Try this patch (on top of previous). > > That's fine, both libraries are now dynamically linked on both versions of > Solaris, which is what was happening before the patch. > O.K., hopefully the last version. Now it really works for Cygwin, both shared and static libs. I tested it with: - Unix, pseudo-shared (see below) static curses - Cygwin, static termcap - Cygwin, shared ncurses So, remaining case is Unix with real shared library and possibly Unix with bad-behaving static library. Solaris 2.6 and my system both provide pseudo-shared implementation - static symbols are linked into every shared object, but references to them are resolved at runtime and point to the single copy of static symbol. It has one possible drawback - if shared object that owns this static symbol is unloaded, references are no more valid. So far, my system seems to correctly keep reference count. It depends on coimpiler options (I can force local binding). So I added test for this case as well - dunno if it really helps. -andrej