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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.143 2010/01/09 19:26:36 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.146 2010/07/03 22:50:50 tom Exp $
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How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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Do not use commands such as
- make install prefix=XXX
+ make install prefix=XXX
to change the prefix after configuration, since the prefix value is used
for some absolute pathnames such as TERMINFO. Instead do this
- make install DESTDIR=XXX
+ make install DESTDIR=XXX
See also the discussion of --with-install-prefix.
--disable-largefile
Disable compiler flags needed to use large-file interfaces.
+ --disable-libtool-version
+ when using --with-libtool, control how the major/minor version numbers
+ are used for constructing the library name.
+
+ The default uses the -version-number feature of libtool, which makes
+ the library names compatible (though not identical) with the standard
+ build using --with-shared.
+
+ Use --disable-libtool-version to use the libtool -version-info feature.
+ This corresponds to the setting used before patch 20100515.
+
--disable-leaks
For testing, compile-in code that frees memory that normally would not
be freed, to simplify analysis of memory-leaks.
application. These are (for example $TERMINFO) those that allow the
search path for the terminfo or termcap entry to be customized.
+ --disable-rpath-hack
+ Normally the configure script helps link libraries found in unusual
+ places by adding an rpath option to the link command. If you are
+ building packages, this feature may be redundant. Use this option
+ to suppress the feature.
+
--disable-scroll-hints
Compile without scroll-hints code. This option is ignored when
hashmap scrolling is configured, which is the default.
for each of the libraries, and install them in pkg-config's library
directory.
+ --enable-pthreads-eintr
+ add logic in threaded configuration to ensure that a read(2) system
+ call can be interrupted for SIGWINCH.
+
--enable-reentrant
Compile experimental configuration which improves reentrant use of the
library by reducing global and static variables. This option is also
--with-ada-objects=DIR
Tell where to install the Ada objects (default: PREFIX/lib/ada/adalib)
+ --with-ada-sharedlib
+ Build a shared library for Ada95 binding, if the compiler permits.
+
--with-bool=TYPE
If --without-cxx is specified, override the type used for the "bool"
declared in curses.h (normally the type is automatically chosen to
use Alessandro Rubini's GPM library to provide mouse support on the
Linux console. Prior to ncurses 5.5, this introduced a dependency on
the GPM library.
-
+
Currently ncurses uses the dlsym() function to bind to the library at
runtime, so it is only necessary that the library be present when
ncurses is built, to obtain the filename (or soname) used in the
Use a hashed database for storing terminfo data rather than storing
each compiled entry in a separate binary file within a directory
tree.
-
+
In particular, this uses the Berkeley database 1.8.5 interface, as
provided by that and its successors db 2, 3, and 4. The actual
interface is slightly different in the successor versions of the
--with-manpage-renames=XXX
Tell the configure script that you wish to rename the manpages while
- installing. Currently the only distribution which does this is Debian.
+ installing. Currently the only distribution which does this is Debian.
The option value specifies the name of a file that lists the renamed
files, e.g., $srcdir/man/man_db.renames
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
+ ./misc/shlib make install
--with-shlib-version=XXX
Specify whether to use the release or ABI version for shared libraries.
of the ncurses library used for the tic program as well as some
others such as tack. There is no API change, but makefiles would be
changed to use the tic-library built separately.
-
+
tack, distributed separately from ncurses, uses some of the internal
_nc_XXX functions, which are declared in the tic.h header file.
still used in this release to allow compiling with not-so-old
compilers.
- + form and menu libraries now work with wide-character data.
+ + form and menu libraries now work with wide-character data.
Applications which bypassed the form library and manipulated the
FIELD.buf data directly will not work properly with libformw, since
that no longer points to an array of char. The set_field_buffer()
Configuration and Installation:
- On platforms where ncurses is assumed to be installed in /usr/lib,
+ On platforms where ncurses is assumed to be installed in /usr/lib,
the configure script uses "/usr" as a default:
GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Cygwin
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