ncurses 5.6 - patch 20071117

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a329b7835381438d36200cc747f83a45a7806ef4..9d972ef0275efbb83a0706967ee3018ab74de012 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
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@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.116 2007/02/17 21:53:16 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.120 2007/11/17 22:05:11 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        return deceptive results, so you may have to override the configure
        script.  Or you may be building tic for a smaller machine.
 
+    --disable-big-strings
+       Disable compile-time optimization of predefined tables which puts
+       all of their strings into a very long string, to reduce relocation
+       overhead.
+
     --disable-database
        Use only built-in data.  The ncurses libraries normally read terminfo
        and termcap data from disk.  You can configure ncurses to have a
@@ -334,6 +339,16 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        For testing, compile-in code that frees memory that normally would not
        be freed, to simplify analysis of memory-leaks.
 
+       Any implementation of curses must not free the memory associated with
+       a screen, since (even after calling endwin()), it must be available
+       for use in the next call to refresh().  There are also chunks of
+       memory held for performance reasons.  That makes it hard to analyze
+       curses applications for memory leaks.  To work around this, build
+       a debugging version of the ncurses library which frees those chunks
+       which it can, and provides the _nc_free_and_exit() function to free
+       the remainder on exit.  The ncurses utility and test programs use this
+       feature, e.g., via the ExitProgram() macro.
+
     --disable-lp64
        The header files will ignore use of the _LP64 symbol to make chtype
        and mmask_t types 32 bits (they may be long on 64-bit hosts, for
@@ -483,12 +498,22 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        may not be accurate, or that your stty settings have disabled the use
        of tabs.
 
+    --enable-mixed-case
+       Controls whether the filesystem on which the terminfo database resides
+       supports mixed-case filenames (normal for UNIX, but not on other
+       systems).  If you do not specify this option, the configure script
+       checks the current filesystem.
+
     --enable-no-padding
        Compile-in support for the $NCURSES_NO_PADDING environment variable,
        which allows you to suppress the effect of non-mandatory padding in
        terminfo entries.  This is the default, unless you have disabled the
        extended functions.
 
+    --enable-reentrant
+       Compile experimental configuration which improves reentrant use of the
+       library by reducing global and static variables.
+
     --enable-rpath
        Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some
        restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs.  This originally