GNU bug report logs - #17197
ncurses programs lack rpath to find ncurses library

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Package: guix;

Reported by: David Thompson <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>

Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 00:45:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: David Thompson <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu>
Cc: 17197-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17197: Clear and reset do not work at bash prompt
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:15:49 +0200

David Thompson <dthompson2 <at> worcester.edu> skribis:

> I installed the ncurses package so that I would have the 'clear' command
> available in my bash shell, but it does not work. :(
>
> I get the following error:
>
> error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot object shared object file: No such file or directory

This was fixed in commit 6d69a7e of the core-updates branch that’s about
to be merged.

Thanks!

Ludo’.
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