ncurses 5.6 - patch 20080907

[ncurses.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index c521c8ba8135556fdcfda7ce473d497d7fa2f861..e338dc73d1853a487808aaa37778e7877c91734b 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written        --
 -- authorization.                                                            --
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--- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.128 2008/08/16 21:12:51 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.129 2008/08/23 20:02:46 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -572,6 +572,13 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
     --enable-warnings
        Turn on GCC compiler warnings.  There should be only a few.
 
+    --enable-weak-symbols
+       If the --with-pthread option is set, check if the compiler supports
+       weak-symbols.  If it does, then name the thread-capable library without
+       the "t" (libncurses rather than libncursest), and provide for
+       dynamically loading the pthreads entrypoints at runtime.  This allows
+       one to reduce the number of library files for ncurses.
+
     --enable-wgetch-events
        Compile with experimental wgetch-events code.  See ncurses/README.IZ