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How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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path. The configure script allows only a single directory, because
that is used as the directory in which to install ".pc" files.
- The automatic check for the library path selects the first directory
- which currently exists.
+ The automatic check for the library path prefers the first directory
+ which currently exists. If none of the directories listed by
+ pkg-config exist, the check prefers a pkgconfig directory under the
+ "libdir" set by the configure script (which may not be the system
+ default), or if pkg-config lists nothing suitable, the first one which
+ is listed by pkg-config is used.
+
+ Automatic selection is overridden by providing an option-value
+ beginning with "/".
+
+ If this option is omitted, the default directory for installing
+ ".pc" files is ${libdir}/pkgconfig
--with-profile
Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root,