ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120811

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 09b10d2037673b1c42d0a76f23dab61b1afd4f55..f24c76a27cf622a66e1cdbb1d9156f2fca52016c 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.162 2012/01/22 00:27:58 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.166 2012/08/11 20:12:34 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -556,6 +556,9 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        library by reducing global and static variables.  This option is also
        set if --with-pthread is used.
 
+       Enabling this option adds a "t" to the library names, except for the
+       special case when --enable-weak-symbols is also used.
+
     --enable-rpath
        Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some
        restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs.  This originally
@@ -596,6 +599,14 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        reducing the need for juggling the global SP value with set_term() and
        delscreen().
 
+    --enable-string-hacks
+       Controls whether strlcat and strlcpy may be used.  The same issue
+       applies to OpenBSD's warnings about snprintf, noting that this function
+       is weakly standardized.
+
+       Aside from stifling these warnings, there is no functional improvement
+       in ncurses.
+
     --enable-symlinks
        If your system supports symbolic links, make tic use symbolic links
        rather than hard links to save diskspace when writing aliases in the
@@ -1017,10 +1028,27 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        library dependencies for tic and other programs built with the tic
        library.
 
+    --with-tparm-arg[=XXX]
+       Override the type used for tparm() arguments, which normally is a
+       "long".  However the function must assume that its arguments can hold a
+       pointer to char's which is not always workable for 64-bit platforms.  A
+       better choice would be intptr_t, which was not available at the time
+       tparm's interface was defined.
+
+       If the option is not given, this defaults to "long".
+
     --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.
 
+    --with-xterm-kbs=XXX
+       Configure xterm's terminfo entries to use either BS (^H, i.e., ASCII
+       backspace) or DEL (^?, or 127).  XXX can be BS (or bs, 8) or DEL
+       (or del, 127).
+
+       During installation, the makefile and scripts modifies the "xterm+kbs"
+       terminfo entry to use this setting.
+
     --with-valgrind
        For testing, compile with debug option.
        This also sets the --disable-leaks option.