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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.234 2021/10/10 22:36:55 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.237 2021/11/20 17:54:20 tom Exp $
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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,
you may encounter when building a system with different versions of
ncurses:
+ 6.3 (Oct 21, 2021)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + the definition of TERMTYPE2 is now internal, not visible in the ABI,
+ like the enclosing TERMINAL which was previously made opaque. This
+ was done to provide SCREEN-specific "static" variables in terminfo.
+
+ Added extensions:
+
+ + add sp-funcs for erasewchar, killwchar.
+
+ Added internal functions (other than "_sp" variants):
+
+ + _nc_safe_fopen and _nc_safe_open3 limit privileges if possible when
+ opening a file; otherwise disallow access for updating files.
+
+ + _nc_tiparm is a variant of tiparm which is used when all of the
+ parameters are known to be numbers rather than possibly strings.
+
+ + _nc_reset_tparm improves tic's checks by resetting the terminfo
+ "static variables" before calling functions which may update them.
+
+ Removed internal functions:
+
+ + none
+
+ Modified internal functions:
+
+ + _nc_trace_ttymode passes pointer to const data
+
+ + _nc_tparm_analyze passes pointer to int*, not int[]
+
6.2 (Feb 12, 2020)
Interface changes: