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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.116 2007/02/17 21:53:16 tom Exp $
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How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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For testing, compile-in code that frees memory that normally would not
be freed, to simplify analysis of memory-leaks.
+ Any implementation of curses must not free the memory associated with
+ 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
+ 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.
+
--disable-lp64
The header files will ignore use of the _LP64 symbol to make chtype
and mmask_t types 32 bits (they may be long on 64-bit hosts, for
terminfo entries. This is the default, unless you have disabled the
extended functions.
+ --enable-reentrant
+ Compile experimental configuration which improves reentrant use of the
+ library by reducing global and static variables.
+
--enable-rpath
Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some
restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs. This originally
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