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+-- Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.225 2020/08/08 23:38:33 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.236 2021/10/26 07:55:02 tom Exp $
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How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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--with-panel-libname=npanel
--disable-pkg-ldflags
- Omit options in $EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the pkg-config ".pc" and
- corresponding ncurses*-config script which normally are listed via
+ Omit options in $LDFLAGS and $EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the pkg-config ".pc"
+ and corresponding ncurses*-config script which normally are listed via
the "--libs" option. These options are normally used to facilitate
linking to ncurses when it was configured to use the rpath feature.
filesystems. This option adds a 1-second sleep to help those tools
avoid unnecessary relinking during the install process.
+ --disable-root-access
+ Compile with environment restriction, so most file-access is limited
+ when running via a setuid/setgid application.
+
--disable-root-environ
Compile with environment restriction, so certain environment variables
are not available when running as root, or via a setuid/setgid
list documented in X/Open. ncurses provides varargs support for this
function. Use --disable-tparm-varargs to disable this support.
- --disable-wattr-macros
- The 6.0 ABI adds support for extended colors and for extended mouse.
- The former is a noticeable problem when developers inadvertently
- compile using the ncurses6 header files and link with an ncurses5
- library, because the wattr* macros use a new field in the WINDOW
- structure. These macros are used in several applications.
-
- Since ncurses provides an actual function for each of these macros,
- suppressing them from the curses.h header allows the ncurses5 libraries
- to be used in most applications.
-
- NOTE: The extended colors also are used in the cchar_t structure, but
- fewer applications use that.
-
- NOTE: This workaround does not help with mismatches in the ncurses
- mouse version. The extended mouse feature uses one less fewer bit for
- each button, so that only the first button will work as expected with
- a mismatch between header and library. Again, most applications will
- work, since most use only the first button.
-
--enable-assertions
For testing, compile-in assertion code. This is used only for a few
places where ncurses cannot easily recover by returning an error code.
For testing, generate functions for certain macros to make them visible
as such to the debugger. See also the --disable-macros option.
+ --enable-exp-win32
+ When configuring for MinGW, use the experimental Windows 10 driver.
+
--enable-ext-colors
Extend the cchar_t structure to allow more than 16 colors to be
encoded. This applies only to the wide-character (--enable-widec)
reducing the need for juggling the global SP value with set_term() and
delscreen().
+ --enable-stdnoreturn
+ When enabled, check if the <stdnoreturn.h> header exists, and if found
+ define GCC_NORETURN to _Noreturn rather than either the gcc-specific
+ __attribute__((noreturn)) or an empty token. Doing this may require
+ calling programs which use GCC_NORETURN in their own function
+ definitions to be modified, because _Noreturn is only accepted as
+ the first token in a declaration.
+
--enable-string-hacks
Controls whether strlcat and strlcpy may be used. The same issue
applies to OpenBSD's warnings about snprintf, noting that this function
--enable-warnings
Turn on GCC compiler warnings. There should be only a few.
+ --enable-wattr-macros
+ The 6.0 ABI adds support for extended colors and for extended mouse.
+ The former is a noticeable problem when developers inadvertently
+ compile using the ncurses6 header files and link with an ncurses5
+ library, because the wattr* macros use a new field in the WINDOW
+ structure. These macros are used in several applications.
+
+ Since ncurses provides an actual function for each of these macros,
+ suppressing them from the curses.h header allows the ncurses5 libraries
+ to be used in most applications.
+
+ NOTE: The extended colors also are used in the cchar_t structure, but
+ fewer applications use that.
+
+ NOTE: This workaround does not help with mismatches in the ncurses
+ mouse version. The extended mouse feature uses one less fewer bit for
+ each button, so that only the first button will work as expected with
+ a mismatch between header and library. Again, most applications will
+ work, since most use only the first button.
+
--enable-weak-symbols
If the --with-pthread option is set, check if the compiler supports
weak-symbols. If it does, then name the thread-capable library without
--with-pkg-config-libdir=[DIR]
If pkg-config was found, override the automatic check for its library
- path.
+ path. The configure script allows only a single directory, because
+ that is used as the directory in which to install ".pc" files.
+
+ The automatic check for the library path prefers the first directory
+ which currently exists. If none of the directories listed by
+ pkg-config exist, the check prefers a pkgconfig directory under the
+ "libdir" set by the configure script (which may not be the system
+ default), or if pkg-config lists nothing suitable, the first one which
+ is listed by pkg-config is used.
+
+ Automatic selection is overridden by providing an option-value
+ beginning with "/".
--with-profile
Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root,
you may encounter when building a system with different versions of
ncurses:
+ 6.3 (Oct 21, 2021)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + the definition of TERMTYPE2 is now internal, not visible in the ABI,
+ like the enclosing TERMINAL which was previously made opaque. This
+ was done to provide SCREEN-specific "static" variables in terminfo.
+
+ Added extensions:
+
+ + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
+
+ Added internal functions (other than "_sp" variants):
+
+ + _nc_safe_fopen and _nc_safe_open3 limit privileges if possible when
+ opening a file; otherwise disallow access for updating files.
+
+ + _nc_tiparm is a variant of tiparm which is used when all of the
+ parameters are known to be numbers rather than possibly strings.
+
+ + _nc_reset_tparm improves tic's checks by resetting the terminfo
+ "static variables" before calling functions which may update them.
+
+ Removed internal functions:
+
+ + none
+
+ Modified internal functions:
+
+ + _nc_trace_ttymode passes pointer to const data
+
+ + _nc_tparm_analyze passes pointer to int*, not int[]
+
6.2 (Feb 12, 2020)
Interface changes:
Please pick a name unique to your console driver and set that up
in the /etc/inittab table or local equivalent. Send the entry to the
terminfo maintainer (listed in the misc/terminfo file) to be included
- in the terminfo file, if it's not already there. See the
+ in the terminfo file, if it is not already there. See the
term(7) manual page included with this distribution for more on
conventions for choosing type names.
tree is accessible (that is, in single-user mode or at OS installation
time) the ncurses library can be compiled to include an array of
pre-fetched fallback entries.
-
+
NOTE: This must be done on a machine which has ncurses' infocmp and
terminfo database installed (as well as ncurses' tic and infocmp
programs). That is because the fallback sources are generated and
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