ncurses 5.9 - patch 20141221

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ef6d7d6b235281505a53e39e46f335bc40b13e3a..8174b34493509205fa2a3e0cb0083122c39e5df1 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.178 2014/11/16 00:03:32 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.180 2014/12/14 00:13:57 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -364,11 +364,17 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        a screen, since (even after calling endwin()), it must be available
        for use in the next call to refresh().  There are also chunks of
        memory held for performance reasons.  That makes it hard to analyze
-       curses applications for memory leaks.  To work around this, build
-       a debugging version of the ncurses library which frees those chunks
+       curses applications for memory leaks.  To work around this, build a
+       debugging version of the ncurses library which frees those chunks
        which it can, and provides the _nc_free_and_exit() function to free
-       the remainder on exit.  The ncurses utility and test programs use this
-       feature, e.g., via the ExitProgram() macro.
+       the remainder and then exit.  The ncurses utility and test programs
+       use this feature, e.g., via the ExitProgram() macro.
+
+       Because this lies outside of the library's intended usage, it is not
+       normally considered part of the ABI.  If there were some (as yet
+       unplanned) extension which frees memory in a manner that would let the
+       library resume and reallocate memory, then that would not use a "_nc_"
+       prefix.
 
     --disable-lp64
        The header files will ignore use of the _LP64 symbol to make chtype
@@ -991,6 +997,11 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        those using termcap, do not use the higher speeds.  Your application
        (or system, in general) may or may not.
 
+    --with-pc-suffix=SUFFIX
+       If ".pc" files are installed, optionally add a suffix to the files
+       and corresponding package names to separate unusual configurations.
+       If no option value is given (or if it is "none"), no suffix is added.
+
     --with-pkg-config=[DIR]
        Check for pkg-config, optionally specifying its path.