ncurses 5.9 - patch 20140412

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2011,2012 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 1.162 2012/01/22 00:27:58 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.170 2014/04/12 23:10:33 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
@@ -556,6 +560,9 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        library by reducing global and static variables.  This option is also
        set if --with-pthread is used.
 
+       Enabling this option adds a "t" to the library names, except for the
+       special case when --enable-weak-symbols is also used.
+
     --enable-rpath
        Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some
        restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs.  This originally
@@ -596,6 +603,14 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        reducing the need for juggling the global SP value with set_term() and
        delscreen().
 
+    --enable-string-hacks
+       Controls whether strlcat and strlcpy may be used.  The same issue
+       applies to OpenBSD's warnings about snprintf, noting that this function
+       is weakly standardized.
+
+       Aside from stifling these warnings, there is no functional improvement
+       in ncurses.
+
     --enable-symlinks
        If your system supports symbolic links, make tic use symbolic links
        rather than hard links to save diskspace when writing aliases in the
@@ -747,6 +762,12 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        executables, e.g., by setting "--with-chtype=long" (the configure
        script supplies "unsigned").
 
+    --with-cxx-shared
+       When --with-shared is set, build libncurses++ as a shared library.
+       This implicitly relies upon building with gcc/g++, since other
+       compiler suites may have differences in the way shared libraries are
+       built.  libtool by the way has similar limitations.
+
     --with-database=XXX
        Specify the terminfo source file to install.  Usually you will wish
        to install ncurses' default (misc/terminfo.src).  Certain systems
@@ -812,10 +833,15 @@ 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.
 
@@ -1017,10 +1043,27 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        library dependencies for tic and other programs built with the tic
        library.
 
+    --with-tparm-arg[=XXX]
+       Override the type used for tparm() arguments, which normally is a
+       "long".  However the function must assume that its arguments can hold a
+       pointer to char's which is not always workable for 64-bit platforms.  A
+       better choice would be intptr_t, which was not available at the time
+       tparm's interface was defined.
+
+       If the option is not given, this defaults to "long".
+
     --with-trace
        Configure the trace() function as part of the all models of the ncurses
        library.  Normally it is part of the debug (libncurses_g) library only.
 
+    --with-xterm-kbs=XXX
+       Configure xterm's terminfo entries to use either BS (^H, i.e., ASCII
+       backspace) or DEL (^?, or 127).  XXX can be BS (or bs, 8) or DEL
+       (or del, 127).
+
+       During installation, the makefile and scripts modifies the "xterm+kbs"
+       terminfo entry to use this setting.
+
     --with-valgrind
        For testing, compile with debug option.
        This also sets the --disable-leaks option.