ncurses 5.6 - patch 20081012

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 0571e98d261ede7dcfd49c201ddc4984669f07a5..3119da759ccac39cca6148bfa7710598acbc9dbf 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.130 2008/09/27 22:04:56 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.131 2008/10/11 18:48:48 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -393,6 +393,18 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        Compile without scroll-hints code.  This option is ignored when
        hashmap scrolling is configured, which is the default.
 
+    --disable-tic-depends
+       When building shared libraries, normally the tic library is linked to
+       depend upon the ncurses library (and in turn, on the term-library if
+       the --with-termlib option was given).  The tic- and term-libraries
+       ABI does not depend on the --enable-widec option. Some packagers have
+       used this to reduce the number of library files which are packaged
+       by using only one copy of those libraries.  To make this work properly,
+       the tic library must be built without an explicit dependency on the
+       ncurses (or ncursesw) library.  Use this configure option to do that.
+       For example
+               configure --with-ticlib --with-shared --disable-tic-depends
+
     --disable-tparm-varargs
        Portable programs should call tparm() using the fixed-length parameter
        list documented in X/Open.  ncurses provides varargs support for this