ncurses 6.2 - patch 20210612

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index a373d67d76ea7e1776b5af77f308ad7fa921c305..dddedd1149c2c344bd11971cdfa7f79d89796e1b 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 1.225 2020/08/08 23:38:33 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.229 2021/04/17 22:26:34 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.
 
@@ -582,6 +582,9 @@ CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
        For testing, generate functions for certain macros to make them visible
        as such to the debugger.  See also the --disable-macros option.
 
+    --enable-exp-win32
+       When configuring for MinGW, use the experimental Windows 10 driver.
+
     --enable-ext-colors
        Extend the cchar_t structure to allow more than 16 colors to be
        encoded.  This applies only to the wide-character (--enable-widec)
@@ -725,6 +728,14 @@ 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