Subject: Re: ["Hoehle, Joerg-Cyril" <[email-masked]>] [clisp-list] Suse Linux 8.2 compilation issues: libtermcap and cp1255/cp1258 m issing

From: Bruno Haible <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue Feb 25 13:23:10 2003

Joerg Hoehle wrote:

> The Suse Linux 8.2 machine which I had acccess to had a strictly
> minimal server configuration: nothing but mysql, perl, gzip, gcc and
> ssh. I added a few packages since then.
> ...
> ls -al /usr/lib/*term*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Dec  3 13:27 /usr/lib/libtermcap=
> .so.2 -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14411 Sep  9 21:13 /usr/lib/libtermcap=
> .so.2.0.8

libtermcap is a permanent security problem. Better remove it from your
system, and use libncurses instead.

Bruno