X-Git-Url: http://ncurses.scripts.mit.edu/?p=ncurses.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=INSTALL;h=e338dc73d1853a487808aaa37778e7877c91734b;hp=a329b7835381438d36200cc747f83a45a7806ef4;hb=d736364fc09f481a38861dcb44b43d15b94af528;hpb=0c9774ef662e2137933ac0c79077eaa9c8981357 diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index a329b783..e338dc73 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Copyright (c) 1998-2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- +-- Copyright (c) 1998-2006,2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- -- -- -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a -- -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the -- @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.116 2007/02/17 21:53:16 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.129 2008/08/23 20:02:46 tom Exp $ --------------------------------------------------------------------- How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system --------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ INSTALLATION PROCEDURE: recent implementation of libiconv. We have built this configuration on Linux using libiconv, sometimes requiring libutf8. + If you configure using the --with-pthread option, a "t" is appended to + the library names (e.g., libncursest.a, libncursestw.a). + If you do not specify any models, the normal and debug libraries will be configured. Typing `configure' with no arguments is equivalent to: @@ -304,6 +307,11 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: return deceptive results, so you may have to override the configure script. Or you may be building tic for a smaller machine. + --disable-big-strings + Disable compile-time optimization of predefined tables which puts + all of their strings into a very long string, to reduce relocation + overhead. + --disable-database Use only built-in data. The ncurses libraries normally read terminfo and termcap data from disk. You can configure ncurses to have a @@ -334,6 +342,16 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: For testing, compile-in code that frees memory that normally would not be freed, to simplify analysis of memory-leaks. + Any implementation of curses must not free the memory associated with + a screen, since (even after calling endwin()), it must be available + for use in the next call to refresh(). There are also chunks of + memory held for performance reasons. That makes it hard to analyze + curses applications for memory leaks. To work around this, build + a debugging version of the ncurses library which frees those chunks + which it can, and provides the _nc_free_and_exit() function to free + the remainder on exit. The ncurses utility and test programs use this + feature, e.g., via the ExitProgram() macro. + --disable-lp64 The header files will ignore use of the _LP64 symbol to make chtype and mmask_t types 32 bits (they may be long on 64-bit hosts, for @@ -483,12 +501,23 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: may not be accurate, or that your stty settings have disabled the use of tabs. + --enable-mixed-case + Controls whether the filesystem on which the terminfo database resides + supports mixed-case filenames (normal for UNIX, but not on other + systems). If you do not specify this option, the configure script + checks the current filesystem. + --enable-no-padding Compile-in support for the $NCURSES_NO_PADDING environment variable, which allows you to suppress the effect of non-mandatory padding in terminfo entries. This is the default, unless you have disabled the extended functions. + --enable-reentrant + Compile experimental configuration which improves reentrant use of the + library by reducing global and static variables. This option is also + set if --with-pthread is used. + --enable-rpath Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs. This originally @@ -543,6 +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 @@ -596,20 +632,32 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: to do this if the target compiler has unusual flags which confuse the host compiler. + You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_CFLAGS rather than + use this option. + --with-build-cppflags=XXX If cross-compiling, specify the host C preprocessor-flags. You might need to do this if the target compiler has unusual flags which confuse the host compiler. + You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_CPPFLAGS rather than + use this option. + --with-build-ldflags=XXX If cross-compiling, specify the host linker-flags. You might need to do this if the target linker has unusual flags which confuse the host compiler. + You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_LDFLAGS rather than + use this option. + --with-build-libs=XXX If cross-compiling, the host libraries. You might need to do this if the target environment requires unusual libraries. + You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_LIBS rather than + use this option. + --with-caps=XXX Specify an alternate terminfo capabilities file, which makes the configure script look for "include/Caps.XXX". A few systems, e.g., @@ -669,10 +717,16 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: See also --without-dlsym - --with-hashed-db + --with-hashed-db[=XXX] Use a hashed database for storing terminfo data rather than storing each compiled entry in a separate binary file within a directory tree. + + In particular, this uses the Berkeley database 1.8.5 interface, as + provided by that and its successors db 2, 3, and 4. The actual + interface is slightly different in the successor versions of the + Berkeley database. The database should have been configured using + "--enable-compat185". If you use this option for configuring ncurses, tic will only be able to write entries in the hashed database. infocmp can still read @@ -684,6 +738,12 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: You cannot have a directory containing both hashed-database and filesystem-based terminfo entries. + Use the parameter value to give the install-prefix used for the + datbase, e.g., + --with-hashed-db=/usr/local/BigBase + to find the corresponding include- and lib-directories under the + given directory. + See also the --enable-getcap option. --with-install-prefix=XXX @@ -754,6 +814,14 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: may be unsigned. Use this option if you need to preserve compatibility with 64-bit executables. + --with-normal + Generate normal (i.e., static) libraries (default). + + Note: on Linux, the configure script will attempt to use the GPM + library via the dlsym() function call. Use --without-dlsym to disable + this feature, or --without-gpm, depending on whether you wish to use + GPM. + --with-ospeed=TYPE Override type of ospeed variable, which is part of the termcap compatibility interface. In termcap, this is a 'short', which works @@ -767,18 +835,15 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: those using termcap, do not use the higher speeds. Your application (or system, in general) may or may not. - --with-normal - Generate normal (i.e., static) libraries (default). - - Note: on Linux, the configure script will attempt to use the GPM - library via the dlsym() function call. Use --without-dlsym to disable - this feature, or --without-gpm, depending on whether you wish to use - GPM. - --with-profile Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root, e.g., libncurses_p.a + --with-pthread + Link with POSIX threads, set --enable-reentrant. The use_window() and + use_screen() functions will use mutex's, allowing rudimentary support + for multithreaded applications. + --with-rcs-ids Compile-in RCS identifiers. Most of the C files have an identifier. @@ -852,6 +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.