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How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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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.