From 38ce614c2a1fad32f9ab32361090bdeb0a7f8b60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Heerdink Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:57:06 +0000 Subject: Rephrased the incomprehensible explanation of "ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so etc" git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1480 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml') diff --git a/chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml b/chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml index 917f7f86d..03eb49b11 100644 --- a/chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml +++ b/chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml @@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ programs try to link using -lcurses instead of -lncurses. This symlink ensures that such programs will link without errors. ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so etc: These -links are created because if they aren't, the linker will not find the -dynamic libraries when linking and so link all programs with the static -versions. +symlinks are created so the linker will use the dynamic versions of these +libraries instead of the static ones, which happens if the linker can't +find the dynamic versions. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf