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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.228 2021/03/23 00:42:13 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.233 2021/09/01 23:29:12 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.
--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
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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