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Ncurses tools First, ensure that gawk is found first during configuration: sed -i s/mawk// configure Then, run the following commands to build the tic program on the build host: mkdir build pushd build ../configure make -C include make -C progs tic popd Prepare Ncurses for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --host=$LFS_TGT \ --build=$(./config.guess) \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --with-manpage-format=normal \ --with-shared \ --without-debug \ --without-ada \ --without-normal \ --enable-widec --with-manpage-format=normal This prevents Ncurses installing compressed manual pages, which may happen if the host distribution itself has compressed manual pages. --without-ada This ensures that Ncurses does not build support for the Ada compiler which may be present on the host but will not be available once we enter the chroot environment. --enable-widec This switch causes wide-character libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so.&ncurses-version;) to be built instead of normal ones (e.g., libncurses.so.&ncurses-version;). These wide-character libraries are usable in both multibyte and traditional 8-bit locales, while normal libraries work properly only in 8-bit locales. Wide-character and normal libraries are source-compatible, but not binary-compatible. --without-normal This switch disables building and installing most static libraries. Compile the package: make Install the package: make DESTDIR=$LFS TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic install echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic We need to pass the path of the just built tic able to run on the building machine, so that the terminal database can be created without errors. echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so The libncurses.so library is needed by a few packages we will build soon. We create this small linker script, as this is what is done in . Move the shared libraries to the /lib directory, where they are expected to reside: mv -v $LFS/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6* $LFS/lib Because the libraries have been moved, one symlink points to a non-existent file. Recreate it: ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink $LFS/usr/lib/libncursesw.so) $LFS/usr/lib/libncursesw.so