ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210626

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 95f5a39316838b502ee6d3d90f32630b3a00c4ae..c9402e70a34a1cf85a5df891d38076c7bca60f04 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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--- Copyright 2018-2019,2020 Thomas E. Dickey                                 --
+-- Copyright 2018-2020,2021 Thomas E. Dickey                                 --
 -- Copyright 1998-2017,2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.                   --
 --                                                                           --
 -- Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a   --
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.226 2020/09/06 23:41:16 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.231 2021/06/26 21:02:02 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -453,8 +453,8 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
                --with-panel-libname=npanel
 
     --disable-pkg-ldflags
-       Omit options in $EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the pkg-config ".pc" and
-       corresponding ncurses*-config script which normally are listed via
+       Omit options in $LDFLAGS and $EXTRA_LDFLAGS from the pkg-config ".pc"
+       and corresponding ncurses*-config script which normally are listed via
        the "--libs" option.  These options are normally used to facilitate
        linking to ncurses when it was configured to use the rpath feature.
 
@@ -475,6 +475,10 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        filesystems.  This option adds a 1-second sleep to help those tools
        avoid unnecessary relinking during the install process.
 
+    --disable-root-access
+       Compile with environment restriction, so most file-access is limited
+       when running via a setuid/setgid application.
+
     --disable-root-environ
        Compile with environment restriction, so certain environment variables
        are not available when running as root, or via a setuid/setgid
@@ -728,6 +732,14 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        reducing the need for juggling the global SP value with set_term() and
        delscreen().
 
+    --enable-stdnoreturn
+       When enabled, check if the <stdnoreturn.h> header exists, and if found
+       define GCC_NORETURN to _Noreturn rather than either the gcc-specific
+       __attribute__((noreturn)) or an empty token.  Doing this may require
+       calling programs which use GCC_NORETURN in their own function
+       definitions to be modified, because _Noreturn is only accepted as
+       the first token in a declaration.
+
     --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
@@ -2189,7 +2201,7 @@ CONFIGURING FALLBACK ENTRIES:
        tree is accessible (that is, in single-user mode or at OS installation
        time) the ncurses library can be compiled to include an array of
        pre-fetched fallback entries.
-       
+
        NOTE: This must be done on a machine which has ncurses' infocmp and
        terminfo database installed (as well as ncurses' tic and infocmp
        programs).  That is because the fallback sources are generated and