Issued:

2015-03-16

Updated:

2016-05-09

RHBA-2015:0687 - ncurses bug fix update

Synopsis

ncurses bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated ncurses packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The ncurses (new curses) library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses packages contain support utilities including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, compilation of applications that use pkg-config and static linking could fail, as the ncurses.pc files did not include the "-ltinfo" option for static linking with ncurses. To fix this bug, the "-ltinfo" option has been included in the pkg-config files and applications now compile successfully. (BZ#1025744)

Users of ncurses are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.el6.i686.rpm
• ncurses-term-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390x.rpm
• ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390x.rpm
• ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ncurses-static-5.7-4.20090207.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ncurses-term-5.7-4.20090207.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.el6.src.rpm
• ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ncurses-base-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc.rpm
• ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390.rpm
• ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ncurses-base-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390x.rpm
• ncurses-static-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.el6.i686.rpm
• ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390x.rpm
• ncurses-term-5.7-4.20090207.el6.i686.rpm
• ncurses-static-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390x.rpm
• ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc.rpm
• ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ncurses-term-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.el6.i686.rpm
• ncurses-base-5.7-4.20090207.el6.x86_64.rpm
• ncurses-static-5.7-4.20090207.el6.i686.rpm
• ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc.rpm
• ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390.rpm
• ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.el6.ppc64.rpm
• ncurses-base-5.7-4.20090207.el6.i686.rpm
• ncurses-libs-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390.rpm
• ncurses-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390x.rpm
• ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.el6.i686.rpm
• ncurses-debuginfo-5.7-4.20090207.el6.s390x.rpm
• ncurses-devel-5.7-4.20090207.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1025744

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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