ncurses 5.9 - patch 20110507

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index eb26ab103ef8fd05f9e6239316fd14b44407268d..d4d1e881449eab711faa2a632493f52155723856 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.155 2011/03/31 08:27:24 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.156 2011/05/07 19:39:37 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -1726,20 +1726,37 @@ CONFIGURING FALLBACK ENTRIES:
        By default, there are no entries on the fallback list.  After you have
        built the ncurses suite for the first time, you can change the list
        (the process needs infocmp(1)).  To do so, use the script
-       ncurses/tinfo/MKfallback.sh.  A configure script option
+       ncurses/tinfo/MKfallback.sh.  The configure script option
        --with-fallbacks does this (it accepts a comma-separated list of the
        names you wish, and does not require a rebuild).
 
        If you wanted (say) to have linux, vt100, and xterm fallbacks, you
-       would use the commands
+       might use the commands
 
                cd ncurses;
-               tinfo/MKfallback.sh linux vt100 xterm >fallback.c
+               tinfo/MKfallback.sh \
+                       $TERMINFO \
+                       ../misc/terminfo.src \
+                       `which tic` \
+                       linux vt100 xterm >fallback.c
+
+       The first three parameters of the script are normally supplied by
+       the configured makefiles via the "--with-fallbacks" option.  They
+       are
+
+               1) the location of the terminfo database
+               2) the source for the terminfo entries
+               3) the location of the tic program, used to create a terminfo
+                  database.
 
        Then just rebuild and reinstall the library as you would normally.
        You can restore the default empty fallback list with
 
-               tinfo/MKfallback.sh >fallback.c
+               tinfo/MKfallback.sh \
+                       $TERMINFO \
+                       ../misc/terminfo.src \
+                       `which tic` \
+                       >fallback.c
 
        The overhead for an empty fallback list is one trivial stub function.
        Any non-empty fallback list is const-ed and therefore lives in sharable