udk mode shared curses library missing on OSR6

[Bela Lubkin]

OSR6 w/mp2 installed includes both static and shared versions of the
curses library for osr mode, but for udk mode, only the static lib is
present. What happened to the shared lib for udk mode?

Sorry, should have replied a week ago...

For reasons that were never adequately explained to me, libcurses never
was a shared object in either OSR5 or UW7 -- until OSR507. As part of
OSR507 development, several previously static libraries were hoisted
into the mid-90's bliss of shared objecthood.

OSR6's "-Kosr" compilation mode is based closely on OSR507, so it has
shared libcurses. "-Kudk" is based closely on UW714-or-so, so it has
only a static libcurses. What "happened" to it is that it never existed
in the immediate ancestry of your targeted development environment...

There was talk about supplying some of those changes to UW7. I'm pretty
sure that UW714 (FCS) has only static libcurses, but that may have
changed in an MP. If so, the MP that delivers that change postdates the
point at which OSR6 "-Kudk" branched its development. And if so, you
would be right to agitate for the change to be brought back across the
branches. (And if not, you would be right to agitate for it to be
brought to _both_ UW71x and OSR6 maintenance streams...)

Bela<

[Roger Cornelius]

Post by Bela Lubkin

OSR6 w/mp2 installed includes both static and shared versions of the
curses library for osr mode, but for udk mode, only the static lib is
present. What happened to the shared lib for udk mode?

Sorry, should have replied a week ago...
For reasons that were never adequately explained to me, libcurses never
was a shared object in either OSR5 or UW7 -- until OSR507. As part of
OSR507 development, several previously static libraries were hoisted
into the mid-90's bliss of shared objecthood.
OSR6's "-Kosr" compilation mode is based closely on OSR507, so it has
shared libcurses. "-Kudk" is based closely on UW714-or-so, so it has
only a static libcurses. What "happened" to it is that it never existed
in the immediate ancestry of your targeted development environment...
There was talk about supplying some of those changes to UW7. I'm pretty
sure that UW714 (FCS) has only static libcurses, but that may have
changed in an MP. If so, the MP that delivers that change postdates the
point at which OSR6 "-Kudk" branched its development. And if so, you
would be right to agitate for the change to be brought back across the
branches. (And if not, you would be right to agitate for it to be
brought to _both_ UW71x and OSR6 maintenance streams...)

Well, I've reported it via SCO's online bug report form so maybe that
will be agitating to someone.