ncurses 5.9 - patch 20120512

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2010,2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2011,2012 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 1.160 2011/10/15 23:32:49 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.165 2012/02/19 21:24:52 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -596,6 +596,14 @@ 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
@@ -831,7 +839,17 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        NOTE: a few systems build shared libraries with fixed pathnames; this
        option probably will not work for those configurations.
 
-     --with-libtool[=XXX]
+    --with-lib-prefix=XXX
+       OS/2 EMX used a different naming convention from most Unix-like
+       platforms.  It required that the "lib" part of a library name was
+       omitted.  Newer EMX as part of eComStation does not follow that
+       convention.  Use this option to override the configure script's
+       assumptions about the library-prefix.  If this option is omitted, it
+       uses the original OS/2 EMX convention for that platform.  Use
+       "--with-lib-prefix=lib" for the newer EMX in eComStation.  Use
+       "--without-lib-prefix" to suppress it for other odd platforms.
+
+    --with-libtool[=XXX]
        Generate libraries with libtool.  If this option is selected, then it
        overrides all other library model specifications.  Note that libtool
        must already be installed, uses makefile rules dependent on GNU make,
@@ -1007,10 +1025,27 @@ 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.