ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080823

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ace4e4c80b37f6a889c0a8f471e24fa6c49505a2..e338dc73d1853a487808aaa37778e7877c91734b 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 1.127 2008/07/05 20:17:23 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.129 2008/08/23 20:02:46 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -572,6 +572,13 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
     --enable-warnings
        Turn on GCC compiler warnings.  There should be only a few.
 
+    --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
+       the "t" (libncurses rather than libncursest), and provide for
+       dynamically loading the pthreads entrypoints at runtime.  This allows
+       one to reduce the number of library files for ncurses.
+
     --enable-wgetch-events
        Compile with experimental wgetch-events code.  See ncurses/README.IZ
 
@@ -910,6 +917,12 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        library.  As in termlib, there is no ABI difference between the
        "wide" libticw.so and libtic.so
 
+       NOTE: Overriding the name of the tic library may be useful if you are
+       also using the --with-termlib option to rename libtinfo.  If you are
+       not doing that, renaming the tic library can result in conflicting
+       library dependencies for tic and other programs built with the tic
+       library.
+
     --with-trace
        Configure the trace() function as part of the all models of the ncurses
        library.  Normally it is part of the debug (libncurses_g) library only.