Unexpected file type for libtermcap.so in RHEL 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

The libtermcap from ncurses-devel has an unexpected file type in RHEL 6:

# file /usr/lib/libtermcap.so

/usr/lib/libtermcap.so: ASCII text

whereas on a RHEL 5 system:

# file /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8 
/lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), stripped

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6

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