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Date:      Wed, 1 Apr 2020 20:01:35 +0200
From:      Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: current: cd /lib ; ln -s libncurses.so.9 libncurses.so.8 xterm & ffox
Message-ID:  <c3fff91c-2559-4aed-c58a-e6e9c3370f4b@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <202004010022.0310MId7034895@fire.js.berklix.net>
References:  <202004010022.0310MId7034895@fire.js.berklix.net>

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On 2020-04-01 02:22, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi ports@
> A libcurses version problem:
> 
> Running 13.0-CURRENT with
> /usr/src
>   cat .svn_revision 359319
>   cat .ctm_status src-cur 14430
> /usr/ports
>   cat .svn_revision 529842
>   cat .ctm_status ports-cur 13423
> 
> After
>   pkg upgrade
>   pkg autoremove
> xterm & firefox failed with
>   ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libncurses.so.8" not found, required by "xterm"
...
> Next to look at /usr/src/
> ObsoleteFiles.inc
> 	# 20200220: Upgrade of ncurses, shlib bumped to version 9
> 	OLD_LIBS+=lib/libncurses.so.8

Yeah, this ncurses bump was handled pretty badly, as it breaks almost 
all installed ports (and a bunch of base programs too, if you are 
unlucky). Isn't there any compat package for it yet?

-Dimitry



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