lfs-book/chapter05/ncurses.xml

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<title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
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<primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary>
<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>

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<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Ncurses</title>

<para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
    --without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite</userinput></screen>

<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>

<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--without-ada</parameter></term>
<listitem><para>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 <command>chroot</command> environment.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry>
<term><parameter>--enable-overwrite</parameter></term>
<listitem><para>This tells Ncurses to install its header files into
<filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename>, instead of
<filename class="directory">/tools/include/ncurses</filename>, to
ensure that other packages can find the Ncurses headers
successfully.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>

<para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2 role="content"><title/>
<para>Details on this package are located in <xref
linkend="contents-ncurses" role="."/></para>
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