X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=INSTALL;h=c8f780747883cef43a148fc757ef67303064bf8f;hb=b040313679284c778b4f02a5b34d9e775ceba697;hp=4da14d491435052da4db9d7cf9502e45c1d62f78;hpb=41677b308e138027b7e435f741ee7fe5651237b0;p=ncurses.git diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 4da14d49..c8f78074 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.144 2010/05/15 22:21:58 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.148 2010/10/23 22:41:32 tom Exp $ --------------------------------------------------------------------- How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system --------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -395,6 +395,12 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: application. These are (for example $TERMINFO) those that allow the search path for the terminfo or termcap entry to be customized. + --disable-rpath-hack + Normally the configure script helps link libraries found in unusual + places by adding an rpath option to the link command. If you are + building packages, this feature may be redundant. Use this option + to suppress the feature. + --disable-scroll-hints Compile without scroll-hints code. This option is ignored when hashmap scrolling is configured, which is the default. @@ -519,6 +525,10 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: may not be accurate, or that your stty settings have disabled the use of tabs. + --enable-interop + Compile-in experimental interop bindings. These provide generic types + for the form-library. + --enable-mixed-case Controls whether the filesystem on which the terminfo database resides supports mixed-case filenames (normal for UNIX, but not on other @@ -580,6 +590,11 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: is not strictly compatible. This option allows one to implement this alteration without patching the source code. + --enable-sp-funcs + Compile-in support for extended functions which accept a SCREEN pointer, + reducing the need for juggling the global SP value with set_term() and + delscreen(). + --enable-symlinks If your system supports symbolic links, make tic use symbolic links rather than hard links to save diskspace when writing aliases in the @@ -591,6 +606,11 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: capabilities as user-defined strings. This option is the default, unless you have disabled the extended functions. + --enable-term-driver + Enable experimental terminal-driver. This is currently used for the + MinGW port, by providing a way to substitute the low-level terminfo + library with different terminal drivers. + --enable-termcap Compile in support for reading terminal descriptions from termcap if no match is found in the terminfo database. See also the --enable-getcap @@ -645,12 +665,19 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: --with-ada-objects=DIR Tell where to install the Ada objects (default: PREFIX/lib/ada/adalib) + --with-ada-sharedlib + Build a shared library for Ada95 binding, if the compiler permits. + --with-bool=TYPE If --without-cxx is specified, override the type used for the "bool" declared in curses.h (normally the type is automatically chosen to correspond with that in , or defaults to platform-specific sizes). + --with-build-cpp=XXX + This option is provided by the same macro used for $BUILD_CC, etc., + but is not directly used by ncurses. + --with-build-cc=XXX If cross-compiling, specify a host C compiler, which is needed to compile a few utilities which generate source modules for ncurses. @@ -1016,6 +1043,10 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: programs (e.g., tic). The test applications will still be built if you type "make", though not if you simply do "make install". + --without-tests + Tell the configure script to suppress the build of ncurses' test + programs. + --without-xterm-new Tell the configure script to use "xterm-old" for the entry used in the terminfo database. This will work with variations such as