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--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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--- Copyright (c) 1998-2011,2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.               --
+-- Copyright (c) 1998-2012,2013 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 1.162 2012/01/22 00:27:58 tom Exp $
+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.168 2013/08/03 23:15:23 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
@@ -556,6 +560,9 @@ 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 +603,14 @@ 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 +762,12 @@ 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
@@ -1017,10 +1038,27 @@ 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.
 
+    --with-xterm-kbs=XXX
+	Configure xterm's terminfo entries to use either BS (^H, i.e., ASCII
+	backspace) or DEL (^?, or 127).  XXX can be BS (or bs, 8) or DEL
+	(or del, 127).
+
+	During installation, the makefile and scripts modifies the "xterm+kbs"
+	terminfo entry to use this setting.
+
     --with-valgrind
 	For testing, compile with debug option.
 	This also sets the --disable-leaks option.