libncurses4 on 3.5.1?

[fsjws4]

I'm trying to get Frotz to work on OZ 3.5.1. The existing package installs OK if I ignore the dependency on "terminal", but won't run because I don't have libncurses.so.4.

I poked around and saw that there was a libncurses.so.5. I thought I'd be clever and copy this as version 4. Surely the new version does everything the old one did, and more.

That got me closer -- I can see the usage screen now, but opening a .z5 file gives me an error like this:

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root@collie:/mnt/ram/home/QtPalmtop/bin# ./frotz /mnt/cf/if/slouch.z5
./frotz: symbol lookup error: ./frotz: undefined symbol: __divsi3
So I figure I have two options -- recompile Frotz to use the newer ncurses, or get a real copy of the older ncurses. What should I do?

[lardman]

Recompiling it would be good, but you may get it to work with a different libncurses... (I had this error with Octave which I'd compiled on the skiffcluster even though I was using the *same* version of libncurses against which I'd compiled it).

YMMV ;-)


Si

[Hrw]

frotz is in OE - will be in OZ 3.5.2 probably