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+-- Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.233 2021/09/01 23:29:12 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.243 2023/04/22 23:41:54 tom Exp $
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How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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--disable-root-access
Compile with environment restriction, so most file-access is limited
- when running via a setuid/setgid application.
+ when running as root, or via a setuid/setgid application.
--disable-root-environ
Compile with environment restriction, so certain environment variables
- are not available when running as root, or via a setuid/setgid
- application. These are (for example $TERMINFO) those that allow the
- search path for the terminfo or termcap entry to be customized.
+ are not available when running as root. These are (for example
+ $TERMINFO) those that allow the search path for the terminfo or termcap
+ entry to be customized.
+
+ Disabling the root environment variables also disables the setuid
+ environment variables by default. Use the --disable-setuid-environ
+ option to modify this behavior.
--disable-rpath-hack
Normally the configure script helps link libraries found in unusual
--disable-stripping
Do not strip installed executables.
+ --disable-setuid-environ
+ Compile with environment restriction, so certain environment variables
+ are not available when running via a setuid/setgid application. These
+ are (for example $TERMINFO) those that allow the search path for the
+ terminfo or termcap entry to be customized.
+
+ A setuid/setgid application inherits its environment variables from
+ the current user, in contrast to sudo which may limit the environment
+ variables that ncurses uses.
+
--disable-tic-depends
When building shared libraries, normally the tic library is linked to
depend upon the ncurses library (or equivalently, on the tinfo-library
--enable-xmc-glitch
Compile-in support experimental xmc (magic cookie) code.
+ --with-abi-altered=NUM
+ Override the displayed (rather than compiled-in) ABI. Only packagers
+ who have created configurations where the ABI differs from ncurses
+ should be interested in this option.
+
--with-abi-version=NUM
Override the ABI version, which is used in shared library filenames.
Normally this is the same as the release version; some ports have
--with-pkg-config-libdir=[DIR]
If pkg-config was found, override the automatic check for its library
- path.
+ 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 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,
programs (e.g., tic). The test applications will still be built if you
type "make", though not if you simply do "make install".
- --without-tack
- Suppress build/install with tack program, if it happens to be
- in the same build-tree (tack was moved out of the ncurses source-tree
- in 20070203).
-
--without-tests
Tell the configure script to suppress the build of ncurses' test
programs.
you may encounter when building a system with different versions of
ncurses:
+ 6.4 (Dec 31, 2022)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + none
+
+ Added extensions:
+
+ + none
+
+ Added internal functions (other than "_sp" variants):
+
+ + add _nc_free_termtype1 and _nc_free_tparm, for memory-leaks
+
+ Removed internal functions:
+
+ + none
+
+ Modified internal functions:
+
+ + none
+
+ 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: