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+-- Copyright 2018-2022,2023 Thomas E. Dickey --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.229 2021/04/17 22:26:34 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.241 2023/04/17 08:04:48 tom Exp $
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How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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filesystems. This option adds a 1-second sleep to help those tools
avoid unnecessary relinking during the install process.
+ --disable-root-access
+ Compile with environment restriction, so most file-access is limited
+ 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
list documented in X/Open. ncurses provides varargs support for this
function. Use --disable-tparm-varargs to disable this support.
- --disable-wattr-macros
- The 6.0 ABI adds support for extended colors and for extended mouse.
- The former is a noticeable problem when developers inadvertently
- compile using the ncurses6 header files and link with an ncurses5
- library, because the wattr* macros use a new field in the WINDOW
- structure. These macros are used in several applications.
-
- Since ncurses provides an actual function for each of these macros,
- suppressing them from the curses.h header allows the ncurses5 libraries
- to be used in most applications.
-
- NOTE: The extended colors also are used in the cchar_t structure, but
- fewer applications use that.
-
- NOTE: This workaround does not help with mismatches in the ncurses
- mouse version. The extended mouse feature uses one less fewer bit for
- each button, so that only the first button will work as expected with
- a mismatch between header and library. Again, most applications will
- work, since most use only the first button.
-
--enable-assertions
For testing, compile-in assertion code. This is used only for a few
places where ncurses cannot easily recover by returning an error code.
--enable-warnings
Turn on GCC compiler warnings. There should be only a few.
+ --enable-wattr-macros
+ The 6.0 ABI adds support for extended colors and for extended mouse.
+ The former is a noticeable problem when developers inadvertently
+ compile using the ncurses6 header files and link with an ncurses5
+ library, because the wattr* macros use a new field in the WINDOW
+ structure. These macros are used in several applications.
+
+ Since ncurses provides an actual function for each of these macros,
+ suppressing them from the curses.h header allows the ncurses5 libraries
+ to be used in most applications.
+
+ NOTE: The extended colors also are used in the cchar_t structure, but
+ fewer applications use that.
+
+ NOTE: This workaround does not help with mismatches in the ncurses
+ mouse version. The extended mouse feature uses one less fewer bit for
+ each button, so that only the first button will work as expected with
+ a mismatch between header and library. Again, most applications will
+ work, since most use only the first button.
+
--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
--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,
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:
Please pick a name unique to your console driver and set that up
in the /etc/inittab table or local equivalent. Send the entry to the
terminfo maintainer (listed in the misc/terminfo file) to be included
- in the terminfo file, if it's not already there. See the
+ in the terminfo file, if it is not already there. See the
term(7) manual page included with this distribution for more on
conventions for choosing type names.
tree is accessible (that is, in single-user mode or at OS installation
time) the ncurses library can be compiled to include an array of
pre-fetched fallback entries.
-
+
NOTE: This must be done on a machine which has ncurses' infocmp and
terminfo database installed (as well as ncurses' tic and infocmp
programs). That is because the fallback sources are generated and