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Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:12:04 -0400
From: Clint Adams <clint@zsh.org>
To: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>
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Subject: Re: termcap bug on Linux
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In-Reply-To: <3B13E52D.5050308@mow.siemens.ru>; from Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru on Tue, May 29, 2001 at 10:06:37PM +0400

> Yes.

I don't know if I ever received 13988, but I don't think I ever read it.

AB> In such cases I always ask myself - what happens, if a program is linked
AB> against dynamic library? Is it possible to silently exchange 4.2 version
AB> against 5.2 version? That would definitely break a lot of things.

On a sane system the soname should reflect the major number.  So
zsh linked against /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 would not run on
a system with only /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.