ncurses 5.9 - patch 20111210

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index d4d1e881449eab711faa2a632493f52155723856..c7dd3278c26717171a189f9e9dcac1cdbb911f1b 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.156 2011/05/07 19:39:37 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.160 2011/10/15 23:32:49 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -407,13 +407,14 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 
     --disable-tic-depends
        When building shared libraries, normally the tic library is linked to
-       depend upon the ncurses library (and in turn, on the term-library if
-       the --with-termlib option was given).  The tic- and term-libraries
-       ABI does not depend on the --enable-widec option. Some packagers have
-       used this to reduce the number of library files which are packaged
-       by using only one copy of those libraries.  To make this work properly,
+       depend upon the ncurses library (or equivalently, on the tinfo-library
+       if the --with-termlib option was given).  The tic- and tinfo-library
+       ABIs do not depend on the --enable-widec option.  Some packagers have
+       used this to reduce the number of library files which are packaged by
+       using only one copy of those libraries.  To make this work properly,
        the tic library must be built without an explicit dependency on the
-       ncurses (or ncursesw) library.  Use this configure option to do that.
+       underlying library (ncurses vs ncursesw, tinfo vs tinfow).  Use this
+       configure option to do that.
        For example
                configure --with-ticlib --with-shared --disable-tic-depends
 
@@ -616,6 +617,12 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        match is found in the terminfo database.  See also the --enable-getcap
        and --enable-getcap-cache options.
 
+       Termcap support requires run-time parsing rather than loading
+       predigested data.  If you have specified --with-ticlib, then you
+       cannot have termcap support since run-time parsing is done in the
+       tic library, which is intentionally not part of normal linkage
+       dependencies.
+
     --enable-warnings
        Turn on GCC compiler warnings.  There should be only a few.
 
@@ -904,6 +911,10 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
     --with-pkg-config=[DIR]
        Check for pkg-config, optionally specifying its path.
 
+    --with-pkg-config-libdir=[DIR]
+       If pkg-config was found, override the automatic check for its library
+       path.
+
     --with-profile
        Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root,
        e.g., libncurses_p.a
@@ -1024,6 +1035,8 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        install as "ncurses.h" and modify the installed headers and manpages
        accordingly.
 
+       Likewise, do not install an alias "curses" for the ncurses manpage.
+
     --without-cxx
        XSI curses declares "bool" as part of the interface.  C++ also declares
        "bool".  Neither specifies the size and type of booleans, but both