ncurses 5.9 - patch 20140906

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c015b439f21555c444e67f166023bed88f0ec3cf..36c0bbcb24c51d79b4c0a9b7debcab1bba45c398 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2012,2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2013,2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
 --                                                                           --
 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
 -- copy of this software and associated documentation files (the             --
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.167 2013/03/09 21:22:04 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.172 2014/06/21 18:53:42 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -315,6 +315,10 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        programs are useful in this configuration, e.g., reset and tput versus
        infocmp and tic.
 
+    --disable-db-install
+       Do not install the terminal database.  This is used to omit features
+       for packages, as done with --without-progs.
+
     --disable-ext-funcs
        Disable function-extensions.  Configure ncurses without the functions
        that are not specified by XSI.  See ncurses/modules for the exact
@@ -333,6 +337,10 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
     --disable-largefile
        Disable compiler flags needed to use large-file interfaces.
 
+    --disable-lib-suffixes
+       Suppress the "w", "t" or "tw" suffixes which normally would be added
+       to the library names for the --enable-widec and --with-pthread options.
+
     --disable-libtool-version
        when using --with-libtool, control how the major/minor version numbers
        are used for constructing the library name.
@@ -829,10 +837,15 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        filesystem-based terminfo entries.
 
        Use the parameter value to give the install-prefix used for the
-       datbase, e.g.,
+       database, e.g.,
                --with-hashed-db=/usr/local/BigBase
        to find the corresponding include- and lib-directories under the
-       given directory.
+       given directory.  Alternatively, you can specify a directory leaf
+       name, e.g., 
+               --with-hashed-db=db4
+       to make the configure script look for files in a subdirectory such as
+               /usr/include/db4/db.h
+               /usr/lib/db4/libdb.so
 
        See also the --enable-getcap option.
 
@@ -974,11 +987,23 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        shared libraries, you may encounter problems with the linker.
        For example, it may prevent you from running  the build tree's
        copy of tic (for installing the terminfo database) because it
-       loads the system's copy of the ncurses shared libraries.  In that
-       case, using the misc/shlib script may be helpful, since it sets
-       $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the build tree, e.g.,
+       loads the system's copy of the ncurses shared libraries.
+       
+       In that case, using the misc/shlib script may be helpful, since it
+       sets $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the build tree, e.g.,
+
                ./misc/shlib make install
 
+       Alternatively, for most platforms, the linker accepts a list of
+       directories which will be searched for libraries at run-time.  The
+       configure script allows you to modify this list using the
+       RPATH_LIST environment variable.  It is a colon-separated list of
+       directories (default:  the "libdir" set via the configure script).
+       If you set that to put "../lib" first in the list, the linker will
+       look first at the build-directory, and avoid conflict with libraries
+       already installed.  One drawback to this approach is that libraries
+       can be accidentally searched in any "../lib" directory.
+
        NOTE: If you use the --with-ada-sharedlib option, you should also
        set this option, to ensure that C-language modules needed for the
        Ada binding use appropriate compiler options.