ncurses: Use symlinks instead of linker scripts

The effect will not change, but with symlinks ld can save some time
invoking open(), read(), etc. syscalls and parsing the linker scripts.

Note that I've also removed "libcursesw" symlink because this library
has never existed.  Instead libcurses.so is created as a symlink
direct to libncursesw.so.

chapter06/ncurses.xml

@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ popd</userinput></screen>
     <para>Install the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$LFS TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic install
-echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so
+ln -sv libncursesw.so $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so
 sed -e 's/^#if.*XOPEN.*$/#if 1/' \
     -i $LFS/usr/include/curses.h</userinput></screen>
 <!--
@@ -178,12 +178,11 @@ sed -e 's/^#if.*XOPEN.*$/#if 1/' \
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry>
-        <term><command>echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</command></term>
+        <term><command>ln -sv libncursesw.so $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</command></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>The <filename>libncurses.so</filename> library is needed by
-          a few packages we will build soon. We create this small linker
+          a few packages we will build soon. We create this symlink to use
-          script, as this is what is done in <xref
+          <filename>libncursesw.so</filename> as a replacement.</para>
-          linkend="chapter-building-system"/>.</para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 

chapter08/ncurses.xml

@@ -144,22 +144,22 @@ sed -e 's/^#if.*XOPEN.*$/#if 1/' \
 cp -av dest/* /</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Many applications still expect the linker to be able to find
-    non-wide-character Ncurses libraries. Trick such applications into linking with
+    non-wide-character Ncurses libraries. Trick such applications into
-    wide-character libraries by means of symlinks and linker scripts:</para>
+    linking with wide-character libraries by means of symlinks
+    (note that the <filename class='extension'>.so</filename> links are
+    only safe with <filename>curses.h</filename> edited to always use the
+    wide-character ABI):</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">for lib in ncurses form panel menu ; do
-    rm -vf                    /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
+    ln -sfv lib${lib}w.so /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
-    echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" &gt; /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
+    ln -sfv ${lib}w.pc    /usr/lib/pkgconfig/${lib}.pc
-    ln -sfv ${lib}w.pc        /usr/lib/pkgconfig/${lib}.pc
 done</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Finally, make sure that old applications that look for
     <filename class="libraryfile">-lcurses</filename> at build time are still
     buildable:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">rm -vf                     /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
+<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sfv libncursesw.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen>
-echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" &gt; /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
-ln -sfv libncurses.so      /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>If desired, install the Ncurses documentation:</para>
 
@@ -211,13 +211,17 @@ cp -av lib/lib*.so.5* /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
            tset
         </seg>
         <seg>
-           libcursesw.so (symlink and linker script to libncursesw.so),
+           libcurses.so (symlink),
+           libform.so (symlink),
            libformw.so,
+           libmenu.so (symlink),
            libmenuw.so,
+           libncurses.so (symlink),
            libncursesw.so,
            libncurses++w.so,
-           libpanelw.so, and their non-wide-character counterparts without "w"
+           libpanel.so (symlink),
-              in the library names.</seg>
+           and libpanelw.so,
+        </seg>
         <seg>
            /usr/share/tabset,
            /usr/share/terminfo, and