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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 6a806aa1..71baeb08 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2011,2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2013,2014 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 1.163 2012/02/11 16:20:42 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.171 2014/04/26 20:30:01 tom Exp $
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              How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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@@ -315,6 +315,10 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 	programs are useful in this configuration, e.g., reset and tput versus
 	infocmp and tic.
 
+    --disable-db-install
+	Do not install the terminal database.  This is used to omit features
+	for packages, as done with --without-progs.
+
     --disable-ext-funcs
 	Disable function-extensions.  Configure ncurses without the functions
 	that are not specified by XSI.  See ncurses/modules for the exact
@@ -333,6 +337,10 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
     --disable-largefile
 	Disable compiler flags needed to use large-file interfaces.
 
+    --disable-lib-suffixes
+	Suppress the "w", "t" or "tw" suffixes which normally would be added
+	to the library names for the --enable-widec and --with-pthread options.
+
     --disable-libtool-version
 	when using --with-libtool, control how the major/minor version numbers
 	are used for constructing the library name.
@@ -556,6 +564,9 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 	library by reducing global and static variables.  This option is also
 	set if --with-pthread is used.
 
+	Enabling this option adds a "t" to the library names, except for the
+	special case when --enable-weak-symbols is also used.
+
     --enable-rpath
 	Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some
 	restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs.  This originally
@@ -596,6 +607,14 @@ 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
@@ -747,6 +766,12 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 	executables, e.g., by setting "--with-chtype=long" (the configure
 	script supplies "unsigned").
 
+    --with-cxx-shared
+	When --with-shared is set, build libncurses++ as a shared library.
+	This implicitly relies upon building with gcc/g++, since other
+	compiler suites may have differences in the way shared libraries are
+	built.  libtool by the way has similar limitations.
+
     --with-database=XXX
 	Specify the terminfo source file to install.  Usually you will wish
 	to install ncurses' default (misc/terminfo.src).  Certain systems
@@ -812,10 +837,15 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
 	filesystem-based terminfo entries.
 
 	Use the parameter value to give the install-prefix used for the
-	datbase, e.g.,
+	database, e.g.,
 		--with-hashed-db=/usr/local/BigBase
 	to find the corresponding include- and lib-directories under the
-	given directory.
+	given directory.  Alternatively, you can specify a directory leaf
+	name, e.g., 
+		--with-hashed-db=db4
+	to make the configure script look for files in a subdirectory such as
+		/usr/include/db4/db.h
+		/usr/lib/db4/libdb.so
 
 	See also the --enable-getcap option.
 
@@ -1017,6 +1047,15 @@ 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.