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diff --git a/contrib/ncurses/INSTALL b/contrib/ncurses/INSTALL index 45b13a9..dbd175f 100644 --- a/contrib/ncurses/INSTALL +++ b/contrib/ncurses/INSTALL @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ -- sale, use or other dealings in this Software without prior written -- -- authorization. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.114 2006/12/17 19:58:19 tom Exp $ +-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.122 2007/12/01 19:37:47 tom Exp $ --------------------------------------------------------------------- How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system --------------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: return deceptive results, so you may have to override the configure script. Or you may be building tic for a smaller machine. + --disable-big-strings + Disable compile-time optimization of predefined tables which puts + all of their strings into a very long string, to reduce relocation + overhead. + --disable-database Use only built-in data. The ncurses libraries normally read terminfo and termcap data from disk. You can configure ncurses to have a @@ -334,6 +339,16 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: For testing, compile-in code that frees memory that normally would not be freed, to simplify analysis of memory-leaks. + Any implementation of curses must not free the memory associated with + a screen, since (even after calling endwin()), it must be available + for use in the next call to refresh(). There are also chunks of + memory held for performance reasons. That makes it hard to analyze + curses applications for memory leaks. To work around this, build + a debugging version of the ncurses library which frees those chunks + which it can, and provides the _nc_free_and_exit() function to free + the remainder on exit. The ncurses utility and test programs use this + feature, e.g., via the ExitProgram() macro. + --disable-lp64 The header files will ignore use of the _LP64 symbol to make chtype and mmask_t types 32 bits (they may be long on 64-bit hosts, for @@ -358,6 +373,13 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: rather than the include directory. This makes it simpler to avoid compile-time conflicts with other versions of curses.h + --disable-relink + If --enable-rpath is given, the generated makefiles normally will + rebuild the libraries during install. Use this option to simply + copy whatever the linked produced. + + This option is ignored if --enable-rpath is not given. + --disable-root-environ Compile with environment restriction, so certain environment variables are not available when running as root, or via a setuid/setgid @@ -476,12 +498,22 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: may not be accurate, or that your stty settings have disabled the use of tabs. + --enable-mixed-case + Controls whether the filesystem on which the terminfo database resides + supports mixed-case filenames (normal for UNIX, but not on other + systems). If you do not specify this option, the configure script + checks the current filesystem. + --enable-no-padding Compile-in support for the $NCURSES_NO_PADDING environment variable, which allows you to suppress the effect of non-mandatory padding in terminfo entries. This is the default, unless you have disabled the extended functions. + --enable-reentrant + Compile experimental configuration which improves reentrant use of the + library by reducing global and static variables. + --enable-rpath Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs. This originally @@ -495,6 +527,9 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: environment variable, they do not work with setuid applications since the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable would be unset in that situation. + This option does not apply to --with-libtool, since libtool makes + extra assumptions about rpath. + --enable-safe-sprintf Compile with experimental safe-sprintf code. You may consider using this if you are building ncurses for a system that has neither @@ -659,10 +694,16 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: See also --without-dlsym - --with-hashed-db + --with-hashed-db[=XXX] Use a hashed database for storing terminfo data rather than storing each compiled entry in a separate binary file within a directory tree. + + In particular, this uses the Berkeley database 1.8.5 interface, as + provided by that and its successors db 2, 3, and 4. The actual + interface is slightly different in the successor versions of the + Berkeley database. The database should have been configured using + "--enable-compat185". If you use this option for configuring ncurses, tic will only be able to write entries in the hashed database. infocmp can still read @@ -674,6 +715,12 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: You cannot have a directory containing both hashed-database and filesystem-based terminfo entries. + Use the parameter value to give the install-prefix used for the + datbase, e.g., + --with-hashed-db=/usr/local/BigBase + to find the corresponding include- and lib-directories under the + given directory. + See also the --enable-getcap option. --with-install-prefix=XXX @@ -833,6 +880,15 @@ SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS: Specify a search-list of termcap files which will be compiled into the ncurses library (default: /etc/termcap:/usr/share/misc/termcap) + --with-ticlib[=XXX] + When building the ncurses library, build a separate library for + the modules that are used only by the utility programs. Normally + those would be bundled with the termlib or ncurses libraries. + + If an option value is given, that overrides the name of the tic + library. As in termlib, there is no ABI difference between the + "wide" libticw.so and libtic.so + --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. |
