ncurses 6.2 - patch 20211018

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c9402e70a34a1cf85a5df891d38076c7bca60f04..bd9f8c7c9029b10ad55a170432d79f1a41e5018c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.231 2021/06/26 21:02:02 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.234 2021/10/10 22:36:55 tom Exp $

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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -516,26 +516,6 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        list documented in X/Open.  ncurses provides varargs support for this
        function.  Use --disable-tparm-varargs to disable this support.
 
        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.
     --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.


@@ -778,6 +758,26 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
     --enable-warnings
        Turn on GCC compiler warnings.  There should be only a few.
 
     --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
     --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


@@ -1143,7 +1143,11 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 
     --with-pkg-config-libdir=[DIR]
        If pkg-config was found, override the automatic check for its library
 
     --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 selects the first directory
+       which currently exists.

 
     --with-profile
        Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root,
 
     --with-profile
        Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root,


@@ -2167,7 +2171,7 @@ FOR SYSTEM INTEGRATORS:
        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
        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.
 
        term(7) manual page included with this distribution for more on
        conventions for choosing type names.