lfs-book/chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml

<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>

<para>
<userinput>patch -Np1 -F10 -i ../ncurses-5.2.patch:</userinput> Regular
updates to the ncurses package are provided as patch files so this is 
to make the source tree up to date.
</para>

<para>
<userinput>--with-shared:</userinput> This enables the build of the
shared ncurses library files.
</para>

<para>
<userinput>--disable-termcap:</userinput> Disabled the compilation of
termcap fall back support.
</para>

</sect2>