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+-- $Id: INSTALL,v 1.135 2008/11/02 21:13:51 tom Exp $
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+ How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
+---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+ ************************************************************
+ * READ ALL OF THIS FILE BEFORE YOU TRY TO INSTALL NCURSES. *
+ ************************************************************
+
+You should be reading the file INSTALL in a directory called ncurses-d.d, where
+d.d is the current version number. There should be several subdirectories,
+including `c++', `form', `man', `menu', 'misc', `ncurses', `panel', `progs',
+and `test'. See the README file for a roadmap to the package.
+
+If you are a Linux or FreeBSD or NetBSD distribution integrator or packager,
+please read and act on the section titled IF YOU ARE A SYSTEM INTEGRATOR
+below.
+
+If you are converting from BSD curses and do not have root access, be sure
+to read the BSD CONVERSION NOTES section below.
+
+If you are trying to build applications using gpm with ncurses,
+read the USING NCURSES WITH GPM section below.
+
+If you are running over the Andrew File System see the note below on
+USING NCURSES WITH AFS.
+
+If you are cross-compiling, see the note below on BUILDING NCURSES WITH A
+CROSS-COMPILER.
+
+If you want to build the Ada95 binding, go to the Ada95 directory and
+follow the instructions there. The Ada95 binding is not covered below.
+
+If you are using anything but (a) Linux, or (b) one of the 4.4BSD-based
+i386 Unixes, go read the Portability section in the TO-DO file before you
+do anything else.
+
+
+REQUIREMENTS:
+------------
+
+You will need the following to build and install ncurses under UNIX:
+
+ * ANSI C compiler (gcc, for instance)
+ * sh (bash will do)
+ * awk (mawk or gawk will do)
+ * sed
+ * BSD or System V style install (a script is enclosed)
+
+Ncurses has been also built in the OS/2 EMX environment.
+
+
+INSTALLATION PROCEDURE:
+----------------------
+
+1. First, decide whether you want ncurses to replace your existing library (in
+ which case you'll need super-user privileges) or be installed in parallel
+ with it.
+
+ The --prefix option to configure changes the root directory for installing
+ ncurses. The default is normally in subdirectories of /usr/local, except
+ for systems where ncurses is normally installed as a system library, e.g.,
+ Linux, the various BSD systems and Cygwin. Use --prefix=/usr to replace
+ your default curses distribution.
+
+ The package gets installed beneath the --prefix directory as follows:
+
+ In $(prefix)/bin: tic, infocmp, captoinfo, tset,
+ reset, clear, tput, toe
+ In $(prefix)/lib: libncurses*.* libcurses.a
+ In $(prefix)/share/terminfo: compiled terminal descriptions
+ In $(prefix)/include: C header files
+ Under $(prefix)/man: the manual pages
+
+ Note that the configure script attempts to locate previous installation of
+ ncurses, and will set the default prefix according to where it finds the
+ ncurses headers.
+
+ Do not use commands such as
+
+ make install prefix=XXX
+
+ to change the prefix after configuration, since the prefix value is used
+ for some absolute pathnames such as TERMINFO. Instead do this
+
+ make install DESTDIR=XXX
+
+ See also the discussion of --with-install-prefix.
+
+2. Type `./configure' in the top-level directory of the distribution to
+ configure ncurses for your operating system and create the Makefiles.
+ Besides --prefix, various configuration options are available to customize
+ the installation; use `./configure --help' to list the available options.
+
+ If your operating system is not supported, read the PORTABILITY section in
+ the file ncurses/README for information on how to create a configuration
+ file for your system.
+
+ The `configure' script generates makefile rules for one or more object
+ models and their associated libraries:
+
+ libncurses.a (normal)
+
+ libcurses.a (normal, a link to libncurses.a)
+ This gets left out if you configure with --disable-overwrite.
+
+ libncurses.so (shared)
+
+ libncurses_g.a (debug)
+
+ libncurses_p.a (profile)
+
+ libncurses.la (libtool)
+
+ If you configure using the --enable-widec option, a "w" is appended to the
+ library names (e.g., libncursesw.a), and the resulting libraries support
+ wide-characters, e.g., via a UTF-8 locale. The corresponding header files
+ are compatible with the non-wide-character configuration; wide-character
+ features are provided by ifdef's in the header files. The wide-character
+ library interfaces are not binary-compatible with the non-wide-character
+ version. Building and running the wide-character code relies on a fairly
+ recent implementation of libiconv. We have built this configuration on
+ Linux using libiconv, sometimes requiring libutf8.
+
+ If you configure using the --with-pthread option, a "t" is appended to
+ the library names (e.g., libncursest.a, libncursestw.a).
+
+ If you do not specify any models, the normal and debug libraries will be
+ configured. Typing `configure' with no arguments is equivalent to:
+
+ ./configure --with-normal --with-debug --enable-overwrite
+
+ Typing
+
+ ./configure --with-shared
+
+ makes the shared libraries the default, resulting in
+
+ ./configure --with-shared --with-normal --with-debug --enable-overwrite
+
+ If you want only shared libraries, type
+
+ ./configure --with-shared --without-normal --without-debug
+
+ Rules for generating shared libraries are highly dependent upon the choice
+ of host system and compiler. We've been testing shared libraries on Linux
+ and SunOS with gcc, but more work needs to be done to make shared libraries
+ work on other systems.
+
+ If you have libtool installed, you can type
+
+ ./configure --with-libtool
+
+ to generate the appropriate static and/or shared libraries for your
+ platform using libtool.
+
+ You can make curses and terminfo fall back to an existing file of termcap
+ definitions by configuring with --enable-termcap. If you do this, the
+ library will search /etc/termcap before the terminfo database, and will
+ also interpret the contents of the TERM environment variable. See the
+ section BSD CONVERSION NOTES below.
+
+3. Type `make'. Ignore any warnings, no error messages should be produced.
+ This should compile the ncurses library, the terminfo compiler tic(1),
+ captoinfo(1), infocmp(1), toe(1), clear(1) tset(1), reset(1), and tput(1)
+ programs (see the manual pages for explanation of what they do), some test
+ programs, and the panels, menus, and forms libraries.
+
+4. Run ncurses and several other test programs in the test directory to
+ verify that ncurses functions correctly before doing an install that
+ may overwrite system files. Read the file test/README for details on
+ the test programs.
+
+ NOTE: You must have installed the terminfo database, or set the
+ environment variable $TERMINFO to point to a SVr4-compatible terminfo
+ database before running the test programs. Not all vendors' terminfo
+ databases are SVr4-compatible, but most seem to be. Exceptions include
+ DEC's Digital Unix (formerly known as OSF/1).
+
+ If you run the test programs WITHOUT installing terminfo, ncurses may
+ read the termcap file and cache that in $HOME/.terminfo, which will
+ thereafter be used instead of the terminfo database. See the comments
+ on "--enable-getcap-cache", to see why this is a Bad Thing.
+
+ It is possible to configure ncurses to use other terminfo database formats.
+ A few are provided as examples in the include-directory (see --with-caps).
+
+ The ncurses program is designed specifically to test the ncurses library.
+ You can use it to verify that the screen highlights work correctly, that
+ cursor addressing and window scrolling works OK, etc.
+
+5. Once you've tested, you can type `make install' to install libraries,
+ the programs, the terminfo database and the manual pages. Alternately, you
+ can type `make install' in each directory you want to install. In the
+ top-level directory, you can do a partial install using these commands:
+
+ 'make install.progs' installs tic, infocmp, etc...
+ 'make install.includes' installs the headers.
+ 'make install.libs' installs the libraries (and the headers).
+ 'make install.data' installs the terminfo data. (Note: `tic' must
+ be installed before the terminfo data can be
+ compiled).
+ 'make install.man' installs the manual pages.
+
+ ############################################################################
+ # CAVEAT EMPTOR: `install.data' run as root will NUKE any existing #
+ # terminfo database. If you have any custom or unusual entries SAVE them #
+ # before you install ncurses. I have a file called terminfo.custom for #
+ # this purpose. Don't forget to run tic on the file once you're done. #
+ ############################################################################
+
+ The terminfo(5) manual page must be preprocessed with tbl(1) before
+ being formatted by nroff(1). Modern man(1) implementations tend to do
+ this by default, but you may want to look at your version's manual page
+ to be sure. You may also install the manual pages after preprocessing
+ with tbl(1) by specifying the configure option --with-manpage-tbl.
+
+ If the system already has a curses library that you need to keep using
+ you'll need to distinguish between it and ncurses. See the discussion of
+ --disable-overwrite. If ncurses is installed outside the standard
+ directories (/usr/include and /usr/lib) then all your users will need to
+ use the -I option to compile programs and -L to link them.
+
+ If you have another curses installed in your system and you accidentally
+ compile using its curses.h you'll end up with a large number of
+ undefined symbols at link time.
+
+ IF YOU DO NOT HAVE ROOT: Change directory to the `progs' subdirectory
+ and run the `capconvert' script. This script will deduce various things
+ about your environment and use them to build you a private terminfo tree,
+ so you can use ncurses applications.
+
+ If more than one user at your site does this, the space for the duplicate
+ trees is wasted. Try to get your site administrators to install a system-
+ wide terminfo tree instead.
+
+ See the BSD CONVERSION NOTES section below for a few more details.
+
+6. The c++ directory has C++ classes that are built on top of ncurses and
+ panels. You must have c++ (and its libraries) installed before you can
+ compile and run the demo.
+
+ Use --without-cxx-binding to tell configure to not build the C++ bindings
+ and demo.
+
+ If you do not have C++, you must use the --without-cxx option to tell
+ the configure script to not attempt to determine the type of 'bool'
+ which may be supported by C++. IF YOU USE THIS OPTION, BE ADVISED THAT
+ YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO COMPILE (OR RUN) NCURSES APPLICATIONS WITH C++.
+
+
+SUMMARY OF CONFIGURE OPTIONS:
+----------------------------
+
+ The configure script provides a short list of its options when you type
+
+ ./configure --help
+
+ The --help and several options are common to all configure scripts that are
+ generated with autoconf. Those are all listed before the line
+
+ --enable and --with options recognized:
+
+ The other options are specific to this package. We list them in alphabetic
+ order.
+
+ --disable-assumed-color
+ With ncurses 5.1, we introduced a new function, assume_default_colors()
+ which allows applications to specify what the default foreground and
+ background color are assumed to be. Most color applications use
+ full-screen color; but a few do not color the background. While the
+ assumed values can be overridden by invoking assume_default_colors(),
+ you may find it useful to set the assumed values to the pre-5.1
+ convention, using this configure option.
+
+ --disable-big-core
+ Assume machine has little memory. The configure script attempts to
+ determine if your machine has enough memory (about 6Mb) to compile the
+ terminfo database without writing portions to disk. Some allocators
+ 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
+ built-in database, aka "fallback" entries. Embedded applications may
+ have no need for an external database. Some, but not all of the
+ programs are useful in this configuration, e.g., reset and tput versus
+ infocmp and tic.
+
+ --disable-ext-funcs
+ Disable function-extensions. Configure ncurses without the functions
+ that are not specified by XSI. See ncurses/modules for the exact
+ list of library modules that would be suppressed.
+
+ --disable-hashmap
+ Compile without hashmap scrolling-optimization code. This algorithm is
+ the default.
+
+ --disable-home-terminfo
+ The $HOME/.terminfo directory is normally added to ncurses' search
+ list for reading/writing terminfo entries, since that directory is
+ more likely writable than the system terminfo database. Use this
+ option to disable the feature altogether.
+
+ --disable-largefile
+ Disable compiler flags needed to use large-file interfaces.
+
+ --disable-leaks
+ 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
+ compatibility with older releases).
+
+ NOTE: this is potentially an ABI change, depending on existing
+ packages. The default for this option is "disabled" for ncurses
+ ABI 5, and "enabled" for ABI 6.
+
+ --disable-macros
+ For testing, use functions rather than macros. The program will run
+ more slowly, but it is simpler to debug. This defines NCURSES_NOMACROS
+ at build time. See also the --enable-expanded option.
+
+ --disable-overwrite
+ If you are installing ncurses on a system which contains another
+ development version of curses, or which could be confused by the loader
+ for another version, we recommend that you leave out the link to
+ -lcurses. The ncurses library is always available as -lncurses.
+ Disabling overwrite also causes the ncurses header files to be
+ installed into a subdirectory, e.g., /usr/local/include/ncurses,
+ 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
+ application. These are (for example $TERMINFO) those that allow the
+ search path for the terminfo or termcap entry to be customized.
+
+ --disable-scroll-hints
+ Compile without scroll-hints code. This option is ignored when
+ hashmap scrolling is configured, which is the default.
+
+ --disable-tic-depends
+ When building shared libraries, normally the tic library is linked to
+ depend upon the ncurses library (and in turn, on the term-library if
+ the --with-termlib option was given). The tic- and term-libraries
+ ABI does not depend on the --enable-widec option. Some packagers have
+ used this to reduce the number of library files which are packaged
+ by using only one copy of those libraries. To make this work properly,
+ the tic library must be built without an explicit dependency on the
+ ncurses (or ncursesw) library. Use this configure option to do that.
+ For example
+ configure --with-ticlib --with-shared --disable-tic-depends
+
+ --disable-tparm-varargs
+ Portable programs should call tparm() using the fixed-length parameter
+ list documented in X/Open. ncurses provides varargs support for this
+ function. Use --disable-tparm-varargs to disable this support.
+
+ --enable-assertions
+ For testing, compile-in assertion code. This is used only for a few
+ places where ncurses cannot easily recover by returning an error code.
+
+ --enable-broken_linker
+ A few platforms have what we consider a broken linker: it cannot link
+ objects from an archive solely by referring to data objects in those
+ files, but requires a function reference. This configure option
+ changes several data references to functions to work around this
+ problem.
+
+ NOTE: With ncurses 5.1, this may not be necessary, since we are
+ told that some linkers interpret uninitialized global data as a
+ different type of reference which behaves as described above. We have
+ explicitly initialized all of the global data to work around the
+ problem.
+
+ --enable-bsdpad
+ Recognize BSD-style prefix padding. Some ancient BSD programs (such as
+ nethack) call tputs("50") to implement delays.
+
+ --enable-colorfgbg
+ Compile with experimental $COLORFGBG code. That environment variable
+ is set by some terminal emulators as a hint to applications, by
+ advertising the default foreground and background colors. During
+ initialization, ncurses sets color pair 0 to match this.
+
+ --enable-const
+ The curses interface as documented in XSI is rather old, in fact
+ including features that precede ANSI C. The prototypes generally do
+ not make effective use of "const". When using stricter compilers (or
+ gcc with appropriate warnings), you may see warnings about the mismatch
+ between const and non-const data. We provide a configure option which
+ changes the interfaces to use const - quieting these warnings and
+ reflecting the actual use of the parameters more closely. The ncurses
+ library uses the symbol NCURSES_CONST for these instances of const,
+ and if you have asked for compiler warnings, will add gcc's const-qual
+ warning. There will still be warnings due to subtle inconsistencies
+ in the interface, but at a lower level.
+
+ NOTE: configuring ncurses with this option may detract from the
+ portability of your applications by encouraging you to use const in
+ places where the XSI curses interface would not allow them. Similar
+ issues arise when porting to SVr4 curses, which uses const in even
+ fewer places.
+
+ --enable-echo
+ Use the option --disable-echo to make the build-log less verbose by
+ suppressing the display of the compile and link commands. This makes
+ it easier to see the compiler warnings. (You can always use "make -n"
+ to see the options that are used).
+
+ --enable-expanded
+ For testing, generate functions for certain macros to make them visible
+ as such to the debugger. See also the --disable-macros option.
+
+ --enable-ext-colors
+ Extend the cchar_t structure to allow more than 16 colors to be
+ encoded. This applies only to the wide-character (--enable-widec)
+ configuration.
+
+ NOTE: using this option will make libraries which are not binary-
+ compatible with libncursesw 5.4. None of the interfaces change, but
+ applications which have an array of cchar_t's must be recompiled.
+
+ --enable-ext-mouse
+ Modify the encoding of mouse state to make room for a 5th mouse button.
+ That allows one to use ncurses with a wheel mouse with xterm or
+ similar X terminal emulators.
+
+ NOTE: using this option will make libraries which are not binary-
+ compatible with libncursesw 5.4. None of the interfaces change, but
+ applications which have mouse mask mmask_t's must be recompiled.
+
+ --enable-getcap
+ Use the 4.4BSD getcap code if available, or a bundled version of it to
+ fetch termcap entries. Entries read in this way cannot use (make
+ cross-references to) the terminfo tree, but it is faster than reading
+ /etc/termcap.
+
+ If configured for one of the *BSD systems, this automatically uses
+ the hashed database system produced using cap_mkdb or similar tools.
+ In that case, there is no advantage in using the --enable-getcap-cache
+ option.
+
+ See also the --with-hashed-db option.
+
+ --enable-getcap-cache
+ Cache translated termcaps under the directory $HOME/.terminfo
+
+ NOTE: this sounds good - it makes ncurses run faster the second time.
+ But look where the data comes from - an /etc/termcap containing lots of
+ entries that are not up to date. If you configure with this option and
+ forget to install the terminfo database before running an ncurses
+ application, you will end up with a hidden terminfo database that
+ generally does not support color and will miss some function keys.
+
+ --enable-hard-tabs
+ Compile-in cursor-optimization code that uses hard-tabs. We would make
+ this a standard feature except for the concern that the terminfo entry
+ 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. This option is also
+ set if --with-pthread is used.
+
+ --enable-rpath
+ Use rpath option when generating shared libraries, and (with some
+ restrictions) when linking the corresponding programs. This originally
+ (in 1997) applied mainly to systems using the GNU linker (read the
+ manpage).
+
+ More recently it is useful for systems that require special treatment
+ shared libraries in "unusual" locations. The "system" libraries reside
+ in directories which are on the loader's default search-path. While
+ you may be able to use workarounds such as the $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
+ 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
+ vsnprintf() or vsprintf(). It is slow, however.
+
+ --enable-sigwinch
+ Compile support for ncurses' SIGWINCH handler. If your application has
+ its own SIGWINCH handler, ncurses will not use its own. The ncurses
+ handler causes wgetch() to return KEY_RESIZE when the screen-size
+ changes. This option is the default, unless you have disabled the
+ extended functions.
+
+ --enable-signed-char
+ The term.h header declares a Booleans[] array typed "char". But it
+ stores signed values there and "char" is not necessarily signed.
+ Some packagers choose to alter the type of Booleans[] though this
+ is not strictly compatible. This option allows one to implement this
+ alteration without patching the source code.
+
+ --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
+ terminfo database.
+
+ --enable-tcap-names
+ Compile-in support for user-definable terminal capabilities. Use the
+ -x option of tic and infocmp to treat unrecognized terminal
+ capabilities as user-defined strings. This option is the default,
+ unless you have disabled the extended functions.
+
+ --enable-termcap
+ Compile in support for reading terminal descriptions from termcap if no
+ match is found in the terminfo database. See also the --enable-getcap
+ and --enable-getcap-cache options.
+
+ --enable-warnings
+ Turn on GCC compiler warnings. There should be only a few.
+
+ --enable-weak-symbols
+ If the --with-pthread option is set, check if the compiler supports
+ weak-symbols. If it does, then name the thread-capable library without
+ the "t" (libncurses rather than libncursest), and provide for
+ dynamically loading the pthreads entrypoints at runtime. This allows
+ one to reduce the number of library files for ncurses.
+
+ --enable-wgetch-events
+ Compile with experimental wgetch-events code. See ncurses/README.IZ
+
+ --enable-widec
+ Compile with wide-character code. This makes a different version of
+ the libraries (e.g., libncursesw.so), which stores characters as
+ wide-characters,
+
+ NOTE: applications compiled with this configuration are not compatible
+ with those built for 8-bit characters. You cannot simply make a
+ symbolic link to equate libncurses.so with libncursesw.so
+
+ NOTE: the Ada95 binding may be built against either version of the the
+ ncurses library, but you must decide which: the binding installs the
+ same set of files for either version. Currently (2002/6/22) it does
+ not use the extended features from the wide-character code, so it is
+ probably better to not install the binding for that configuration.
+
+ --enable-xmc-glitch
+ Compile-in support experimental xmc (magic cookie) code.
+
+ --with-abi-version=NUM
+ Override the ABI version, which is used in shared library filenames.
+ Normally this is the same as the release version; some ports have
+ special requirements for compatibility.
+
+ This option does not affect linking with libtool, which uses the
+ release major/minor numbers.
+
+ --with-ada-compiler=CMD
+ Specify the Ada95 compiler command (default "gnatmake")
+
+ --with-ada-include=DIR
+ Tell where to install the Ada includes (default:
+ PREFIX/lib/ada/adainclude)
+
+ --with-ada-objects=DIR
+ Tell where to install the Ada objects (default: PREFIX/lib/ada/adalib)
+
+ --with-bool=TYPE
+ If --without-cxx is specified, override the type used for the "bool"
+ declared in curses.h (normally the type is automatically chosen to
+ correspond with that in <stdbool.h>, or defaults to platform-specific
+ sizes).
+
+ --with-build-cc=XXX
+ If cross-compiling, specify a host C compiler, which is needed to
+ compile a few utilities which generate source modules for ncurses.
+ If you do not give this option, the configure script checks if the
+ $BUILD_CC variable is set, and otherwise defaults to gcc or cc.
+
+ --with-build-cflags=XXX
+ If cross-compiling, specify the host C compiler-flags. You might need
+ to do this if the target compiler has unusual flags which confuse the
+ host compiler.
+
+ You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_CFLAGS rather than
+ use this option.
+
+ --with-build-cppflags=XXX
+ If cross-compiling, specify the host C preprocessor-flags. You might
+ need to do this if the target compiler has unusual flags which confuse
+ the host compiler.
+
+ You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_CPPFLAGS rather than
+ use this option.
+
+ --with-build-ldflags=XXX
+ If cross-compiling, specify the host linker-flags. You might need to
+ do this if the target linker has unusual flags which confuse the host
+ compiler.
+
+ You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_LDFLAGS rather than
+ use this option.
+
+ --with-build-libs=XXX
+ If cross-compiling, the host libraries. You might need to do this if
+ the target environment requires unusual libraries.
+
+ You can also set the environment variable $BUILD_LIBS rather than
+ use this option.
+
+ --with-caps=XXX
+ Specify an alternate terminfo capabilities file, which makes the
+ configure script look for "include/Caps.XXX". A few systems, e.g.,
+ AIX 4.x use the same overall file-format as ncurses for terminfo
+ data, but use different alignments within the tables to support
+ legacy applications. For those systems, you can configure ncurses
+ to use a terminfo database which is compatible with the native
+ applications.
+
+ --with-chtype=TYPE
+ Override type of chtype, which stores the video attributes and (if
+ --enable-widec is not given) a character. Prior to ncurses 5.5, this
+ was always unsigned long, but with ncurses 5.5, it may be unsigned.
+ Use this option if you need to preserve compatibility with 64-bit
+ executables.
+
+ --with-database=XXX
+ Specify the terminfo source file to install. Usually you will wish
+ to install ncurses' default (misc/terminfo.src). Certain systems
+ have special requirements, e.g, OS/2 EMX has a customized terminfo
+ source file.
+
+ --with-dbmalloc
+ For testing, compile and link with Conor Cahill's dbmalloc library.
+ This also sets the --disable-leaks option.
+
+ --with-debug
+ Generate debug-libraries (default). These are named by adding "_g"
+ to the root, e.g., libncurses_g.a
+
+ --with-default-terminfo-dir=XXX
+ Specify the default terminfo database directory. This is normally
+ DATADIR/terminfo, e.g., /usr/share/terminfo.
+
+ --with-dmalloc
+ For testing, compile and link with Gray Watson's dmalloc library.
+ This also sets the --disable-leaks option.
+
+ --with-fallbacks=XXX
+ Specify a list of fallback terminal descriptions which will be
+ compiled into the ncurses library. See CONFIGURING FALLBACK ENTRIES.
+
+ --with-gpm
+ use Alessandro Rubini's GPM library to provide mouse support on the
+ Linux console. Prior to ncurses 5.5, this introduced a dependency on
+ the GPM library.
+
+ Currently ncurses uses the dlsym() function to bind to the library at
+ runtime, so it is only necessary that the library be present when
+ ncurses is built, to obtain the filename (or soname) used in the
+ corresponding dlopen() call. If you give a value for this option,
+ e.g.,
+
+ --with-gpm=$HOME/tmp/test-gpm.so
+
+ that overrides the configure check for the soname.
+
+ See also --without-dlsym
+
+ --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
+ entries from a directory tree as well as reading entries from the
+ hashed database. To do this, infocmp determines whether the $TERMINFO
+ variable points to a directory or a file, and reads the directory-tree
+ or hashed database respectively.
+
+ 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
+ Allows you to specify an alternate location for installing ncurses
+ after building it. The value you specify is prepended to the "real"
+ install location. This simplifies making binary packages. The
+ makefile variable DESTDIR is set by this option. It is also possible
+ to use
+ make install DESTDIR=XXX
+ since the makefiles pass that variable to subordinate makes.
+
+ NOTE: a few systems build shared libraries with fixed pathnames; this
+ option probably will not work for those configurations.
+
+ --with-libtool[=XXX]
+ Generate libraries with libtool. If this option is selected, then it
+ overrides all other library model specifications. Note that libtool
+ must already be installed, uses makefile rules dependent on GNU make,
+ and does not promise to follow the version numbering convention of
+ other shared libraries on your system. However, if the --with-shared
+ option does not succeed, you may get better results with this option.
+
+ If a parameter value is given, it must be the full pathname of the
+ particular version of libtool, e.g.,
+ /usr/bin/libtool-1.2.3
+
+ It is possible to rebuild the configure script to use the automake
+ macros for libtool, e.g., AC_PROG_LIBTOOL. See the comments in
+ aclocal.m4 for CF_PROG_LIBTOOL, and ensure that you build configure
+ using the appropriate patch for autoconf from
+ http://invisible-island.net/autoconf/
+
+ --with-manpage-aliases
+ Tell the configure script you wish to create entries in the
+ man-directory for aliases to manpages which list them, e.g., the
+ functions in the panel manpage. This is the default. You can disable
+ it if your man program does this. You can also disable
+ --with-manpage-symlinks to install files containing a ".so" command
+ rather than symbolic links.
+
+ --with-manpage-format=XXX
+ Tell the configure script how you would like to install man-pages. The
+ option value must be one of these: gzip, compress, BSDI, normal,
+ formatted. If you do not give this option, the configure script
+ attempts to determine which is the case.
+
+ --with-manpage-renames=XXX
+ Tell the configure script that you wish to rename the manpages while
+ installing. Currently the only distribution which does this is
+ the Linux Debian. The option value specifies the name of a file
+ that lists the renamed files, e.g., $srcdir/man/man_db.renames
+
+ --with-manpage-symlinks
+ Tell the configure script that you wish to make symbolic links in the
+ man-directory for aliases to the man-pages. This is the default, but
+ can be disabled for systems that provide this automatically. Doing
+ this on systems that do not support symbolic links will result in
+ copying the man-page for each alias.
+
+ --with-manpage-tbl
+ Tell the configure script that you with to preprocess the manpages
+ by running them through tbl to generate tables understandable by
+ nroff.
+
+ --with-mmask-t=TYPE
+ Override type of mmask_t, which stores the mouse mask. Prior to
+ ncurses 5.5, this was always unsigned long, but with ncurses 5.5, it
+ may be unsigned. Use this option if you need to preserve compatibility
+ with 64-bit executables.
+
+ --with-normal
+ Generate normal (i.e., static) libraries (default).
+
+ Note: on Linux, the configure script will attempt to use the GPM
+ library via the dlsym() function call. Use --without-dlsym to disable
+ this feature, or --without-gpm, depending on whether you wish to use
+ GPM.
+
+ --with-ospeed=TYPE
+ Override type of ospeed variable, which is part of the termcap
+ compatibility interface. In termcap, this is a 'short', which works
+ for a wide range of baudrates because ospeed is not the actual speed
+ but the encoded value, e.g., B9600 would be a small number such as 13.
+ However the encoding scheme originally allowed for values "only" up to
+ 38400bd. A newer set of definitions past 38400bd is not encoded as
+ compactly, and is not guaranteed to fit into a short (see the function
+ cfgetospeed(), which returns a speed_t for this reason). In practice,
+ applications that required knowledge of the ospeed variable, i.e.,
+ those using termcap, do not use the higher speeds. Your application
+ (or system, in general) may or may not.
+
+ --with-profile
+ Generate profile-libraries These are named by adding "_p" to the root,
+ e.g., libncurses_p.a
+
+ --with-pthread
+ Link with POSIX threads, set --enable-reentrant. The use_window() and
+ use_screen() functions will use mutex's, allowing rudimentary support
+ for multithreaded applications.
+
+ --with-rcs-ids
+ Compile-in RCS identifiers. Most of the C files have an identifier.
+
+ --with-rel-version=NUM
+ Override the release version, which may be used in shared library
+ filenames. This consists of a major and minor version number separated
+ by ".". Normally the major version number is the same as the ABI
+ version; some ports have special requirements for compatibility.
+
+ --with-shared
+ Generate shared-libraries. The names given depend on the system for
+ which you are building, typically using a ".so" suffix, along with
+ symbolic links that refer to the release version.
+
+ NOTE: Unless you override the configure script by setting the $CFLAGS
+ environment variable, these will not be built with the -g debugging
+ option.
+
+ NOTE: For some configurations, e.g., installing a new version of
+ ncurses shared libraries on a machine which already has ncurses
+ shared libraries, you may encounter problems with the linker.
+ For example, it may prevent you from running the build tree's
+ copy of tic (for installing the terminfo database) because it
+ loads the system's copy of the ncurses shared libraries. In that
+ case, using the misc/shlib script may be helpful, since it sets
+ $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the build tree, e.g.,
+ ./misc/shlib make install
+
+ --with-shlib-version=XXX
+ Specify whether to use the release or ABI version for shared libraries.
+ This is normally chosen automatically based on the type of system
+ which you are building on. We use it for testing the configure script.
+
+ --with-sysmouse
+ use FreeBSD sysmouse interface provide mouse support on the console.
+
+ --with-system-type=XXX
+ For testing, override the derived host system-type which is used to
+ decide things such as the linker commands used to build shared
+ libraries. This is normally chosen automatically based on the type of
+ system which you are building on. We use it for testing the configure
+ script.
+
+ --with-terminfo-dirs=XXX
+ Specify a search-list of terminfo directories which will be compiled
+ into the ncurses library (default: DATADIR/terminfo)
+
+ --with-termlib[=XXX]
+ When building the ncurses library, organize this as two parts: the
+ curses library (libncurses) and the low-level terminfo library
+ (libtinfo). This is done to accommodate applications that use only
+ the latter. The terminfo library is about half the size of the total.
+
+ If an option value is given, that overrides the name of the terminfo
+ library. For instance, if the wide-character version is built, the
+ terminfo library would be named libtinfow. But the libtinfow interface
+ is upward compatible from libtinfo, so it would be possible to overlay
+ libtinfo.so with a "wide" version of libtinfow.so by renaming it with
+ this option.
+
+ --with-termpath=XXX
+ 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
+
+ NOTE: Overriding the name of the tic library may be useful if you are
+ also using the --with-termlib option to rename libtinfo. If you are
+ not doing that, renaming the tic library can result in conflicting
+ library dependencies for tic and other programs built with the tic
+ library.
+
+ --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-valgrind
+ For testing, compile with debug option.
+ This also sets the --disable-leaks option.
+
+ --without-ada
+ Suppress the configure script's check for Ada95, do not build the
+ Ada95 binding and related demo.
+
+ --without-curses-h
+ Don't install the ncurses header with the name "curses.h". Rather,
+ install as "ncurses.h" and modify the installed headers and manpages
+ accordingly.
+
+ --without-cxx
+ XSI curses declares "bool" as part of the interface. C++ also declares
+ "bool". Neither specifies the size and type of booleans, but both
+ insist on the same name. We chose to accommodate this by making the
+ configure script check for the size and type (e.g., unsigned or signed)
+ that your C++ compiler uses for booleans. If you do not wish to use
+ ncurses with C++, use this option to tell the configure script to not
+ adjust ncurses bool to match C++.
+
+ --without-cxx-binding
+ Suppress the configure script's check for C++, do not build the
+ C++ binding and related demo.
+
+ --without-develop
+ Disable development options. This does not include those that change
+ the interface, such as --enable-widec.
+
+ --without-dlsym
+ Do not use dlsym() to load GPM dynamically.
+
+ --without-progs
+ Tell the configure script to suppress the build of ncurses' application
+ programs (e.g., tic). The test applications will still be built if you
+ type "make", though not if you simply do "make install".
+
+ --without-xterm-new
+ Tell the configure script to use "xterm-old" for the entry used in
+ the terminfo database. This will work with variations such as
+ X11R5 and X11R6 xterm.
+
+
+COMPATIBILITY WITH OLDER VERSIONS OF NCURSES:
+--------------------------------------------
+
+ Because ncurses implements the X/Open Curses Specification, its interface
+ is fairly stable. That does not mean the interface does not change.
+ Changes are made to the documented interfaces when we find differences
+ between ncurses and X/Open or implementations which they certify (such as
+ Solaris). We add extensions to those interfaces to solve problems not
+ addressed by the original curses design, but those must not conflict with
+ the X/Open documentation.
+
+ Here are some of the major interface changes, and related problems which
+ you may encounter when building a system with different versions of
+ ncurses:
+
+ 5.7 (November 2, 2008)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + generate linkable stubs for some macros:
+ getattrs
+
+ + Add new library configuration for tic-library (the non-curses portion
+ of the ncurses library used for the tic program as well as some
+ others such as tack. There is no API change, but makefiles would be
+ changed to use the tic-library built separately.
+
+ tack, distributed separately from ncurses, uses some of the internal
+ _nc_XXX functions, which are declared in the tic.h header file.
+
+ The reason for providing this separate library is that none of the
+ functions in it are suitable for threaded applications.
+
+ + Add new library configuration (ncursest, ncurseswt) which provides
+ rudimentary support for POSIX threads. This introduces opaque
+ access functions to the WINDOW structure and adds a parameter to
+ several internal functions.
+
+ + move most internal variables (except tic-library) into data blocks
+ _nc_globals and _nc_prescreen to simplify analysis. Those were
+ globally accessible, but since they were not part of the documented
+ API, there is no ABI change.
+
+ + changed static tables of strings to be indices into long strings, to
+ improve startup performance. This changes parameter lists for some
+ of the internal functions.
+
+ Added extensions:
+
+ + add NCURSES_OPAQUE definition in curses.h to control whether internal
+ details of the WINDOW structure are visible to an application. This
+ is always defined when the threaded library is built, and is optional
+ otherwise. New functions for this: is_cleared, is_idcok, is_idlok,
+ is_immedok, is_keypad, is_leaveok, is_nodelay, is_notimeout,
+ is_scrollok, is_syncok, wgetparent and wgetscrreg.
+
+ + the threaded library (ncursest) also disallows direct updating of
+ global curses-level variables, providing functions (via macros) for
+ obtaining their value. A few of those variables can be modified by
+ the application, using new functions: set_escdelay, set_tabsize
+
+ + added functions use_window() and use_screen() which wrap a mutex
+ (if threading is configured) around a call to a user-supplied
+ function.
+
+ Added internal functions:
+ _nc_get_alias_table
+ _nc_get_screensize
+ _nc_keyname
+ _nc_screen_of
+ _nc_set_no_padding
+ _nc_tracechar
+ _nc_tracemouse
+ _nc_unctrl
+ _nc_ungetch
+
+ These are used for leak-testing, and are stubs for
+ ABI compatibility when ncurses is not configured for that
+ using the --disable-leaks configure script option:
+
+ _nc_free_and_exit
+ _nc_leaks_tinfo
+
+ Removed internal functions:
+ none
+
+ Modified internal functions:
+ _nc_fifo_dump
+ _nc_find_entry
+ _nc_handle_sigwinch
+ _nc_init_keytry
+ _nc_keypad
+ _nc_locale_breaks_acs
+ _nc_timed_wait
+ _nc_update_screensize
+
+ Use new typedef TRIES to replace "struct tries":
+
+ _nc_add_to_try
+ _nc_expand_try
+ _nc_remove_key
+ _nc_remove_string
+ _nc_trace_tries
+
+ 5.6 (December 17, 2006)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + generate linkable stubs for some macros:
+
+ getbegx, getbegy, getcurx, getcury, getmaxx, getmaxy, getparx,
+ getpary, getpary,
+
+ and (for libncursesw)
+
+ wgetbkgrnd
+
+ Added extensions:
+ nofilter()
+ use_legacy_coding()
+
+ Added internal functions:
+ _nc_first_db
+ _nc_get_source
+ _nc_handle_sigwinch
+ _nc_is_abs_path
+ _nc_is_dir_path
+ _nc_is_file_path
+ _nc_keep_tic_dir
+ _nc_keep_tic_dir
+ _nc_last_db
+ _nc_next_db
+ _nc_read_termtype
+ _nc_tic_dir
+
+ Also (if using the hashed database configuration):
+
+ _nc_db_close
+ _nc_db_first
+ _nc_db_get
+ _nc_db_have_data
+ _nc_db_have_index
+ _nc_db_next
+ _nc_db_open
+ _nc_db_put
+
+ otherwise
+
+ _nc_hashed_db
+
+ Removed internal functions:
+ none
+
+ Modified internal functions:
+ _nc_add_to_try
+ _nc_do_color
+ _nc_expand_try
+ _nc_remove_key
+ _nc_setupscreen
+
+ 5.5 (October 10, 2005)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + terminfo installs "xterm-new" as "xterm" entry rather than
+ "xterm-old" (aka xterm-r6).
+
+ + terminfo data is installed using the tic -x option (few systems
+ still use ncurses 4.2).
+
+ + modify C++ binding to work with newer C++ compilers by providing
+ initializers and using modern casts. Old-style header names are
+ still used in this release to allow compiling with not-so-old
+ compilers.
+
+ + form and menu libraries now work with wide-character data.
+ Applications which bypassed the form library and manipulated the
+ FIELD.buf data directly will not work properly with libformw, since
+ that no longer points to an array of char. The set_field_buffer()
+ and field_buffer() functions translate to/from the actual field
+ data.
+
+ + change SP->_current_attr to a pointer, adjust ifdef's to ensure that
+ libtinfo.so and libtinfow.so have the same ABI. The reason for this
+ is that the corresponding data which belongs to the upper-level
+ ncurses library has a different size in each model.
+
+ + winnstr() now returns multibyte character strings for the
+ wide-character configuration.
+
+ + assume_default_colors() no longer requires that use_default_colors()
+ be called first.
+
+ + data_ahead() now works with wide-characters.
+
+ + slk_set() and slk_wset() now accept and store multibyte or
+ multicolumn characters.
+
+ + start_color() now returns OK if colors have already been started.
+ start_color() also returns ERR if it cannot allocate memory.
+
+ + pair_content() now returns -1 for consistency with init_pair() if it
+ corresponds to the default-color.
+
+ + unctrl() now returns null if its parameter does not correspond
+ to an unsigned char.
+
+ Added extensions:
+ Experimental mouse version 2 supports wheel mice with buttons
+ 4 and 5. This requires ABI 6 because it modifies the encoding
+ of mouse events.
+
+ Experimental extended colors allows encoding of 256 foreground
+ and background colors, e.g., with the xterm-256color or
+ xterm-88color terminfo entries. This requires ABI 6 because
+ it changes the size of cchar_t.
+
+ Added internal functions:
+ _nc_check_termtype2
+ _nc_resolve_uses2
+ _nc_retrace_cptr
+ _nc_retrace_cvoid_ptr
+ _nc_retrace_void_ptr
+ _nc_setup_term
+
+ Removed internal functions:
+ none
+
+ Modified internal functions:
+ _nc_insert_ch
+ _nc_save_str
+ _nc_trans_string
+
+ 5.4 (February 8, 2004)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + add the remaining functions for X/Open curses wide-character support.
+ These are only available if the library is configured using the
+ --enable-widec option.
+ pecho_wchar()
+ slk_wset()
+
+ + write getyx() and related 2-return macros in terms of getcury(),
+ getcurx(), etc.
+
+ + simplify ifdef for bool declaration in curses.h
+
+ + modify ifdef's in curses.h that disabled use of __attribute__() for
+ g++, since recent versions implement the cases which ncurses uses.
+
+ + change some interfaces to use const:
+ define_key()
+ mvprintw()
+ mvwprintw()
+ printw()
+ vw_printw()
+ winsnstr()
+ wprintw()
+
+ Added extensions:
+ key_defined()
+
+ Added internal functions:
+ _nc_get_locale()
+ _nc_insert_ch()
+ _nc_is_charable() wide
+ _nc_locale_breaks_acs()
+ _nc_pathlast()
+ _nc_to_char() wide
+ _nc_to_widechar() wide
+ _nc_tparm_analyze()
+ _nc_trace_bufcat() debug
+ _nc_unicode_locale()
+
+ Removed internal functions:
+ _nc_outstr()
+ _nc_sigaction()
+
+ Modified internal functions:
+ _nc_remove_string()
+ _nc_retrace_chtype()
+
+ 5.3 (October 12, 2002)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + change type for bool used in headers to NCURSES_BOOL, which usually
+ is the same as the compiler's definition for 'bool'.
+
+ + add all but two functions for X/Open curses wide-character support.
+ These are only available if the library is configured using the
+ --enable-widec option. Missing functions are
+ pecho_wchar()
+ slk_wset()
+
+ + add environment variable $NCURSES_ASSUMED_COLORS to modify the
+ assume_default_colors() extension.
+
+ Added extensions:
+ is_term_resized()
+ resize_term()
+
+ Added internal functions:
+ _nc_altcharset_name() debug
+ _nc_reset_colors()
+ _nc_retrace_bool() debug
+ _nc_retrace_unsigned() debug
+ _nc_rootname()
+ _nc_trace_ttymode() debug
+ _nc_varargs() debug
+ _nc_visbufn() debug
+ _nc_wgetch()
+
+ Removed internal functions:
+ _nc_background()
+
+ Modified internal functions:
+ _nc_freeall() debug
+
+ 5.2 (October 21, 2000)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + revert termcap ospeed variable to 'short' (see discussion of the
+ --with-ospeed configure option).
+
+ 5.1 (July 8, 2000)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + made the extended terminal capabilities
+ (configure --enable-tcap-names) a standard feature. This should
+ be transparent to applications that do not require it.
+
+ + removed the trace() function and related trace support from the
+ production library.
+
+ + modified curses.h.in, undef'ing some symbols to avoid conflict
+ with C++ STL.
+
+ Added extensions: assume_default_colors().
+
+ 5.0 (October 23, 1999)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + implemented the wcolor_set() and slk_color() functions.
+
+ + move macro winch to a function, to hide details of struct ldat
+
+ + corrected prototypes for slk_* functions, using chtype rather than
+ attr_t.
+
+ + the slk_attr_{set,off,on} functions need an additional void*
+ parameter according to XSI.
+
+ + modified several prototypes to correspond with 1997 version of X/Open
+ Curses: [w]attr_get(), [w]attr_set(), border_set() have different
+ parameters. Some functions were renamed or misspelled:
+ erase_wchar(), in_wchntr(), mvin_wchntr(). Some developers have used
+ attr_get().
+
+ Added extensions: keybound(), curses_version().
+
+ Terminfo database changes:
+
+ + change translation for termcap 'rs' to terminfo 'rs2', which is
+ the documented equivalent, rather than 'rs1'.
+
+ The problems are subtler in recent releases.
+
+ a) This release provides users with the ability to define their own
+ terminal capability extensions, like termcap. To accomplish this,
+ we redesigned the TERMTYPE struct (in term.h). Very few
+ applications use this struct. They must be recompiled to work with
+ the 5.0 library.
+
+ a) If you use the extended terminfo names (i.e., you used configure
+ --enable-tcap-names), the resulting terminfo database can have some
+ entries which are not readable by older versions of ncurses. This
+ is a bug in the older versions:
+
+ + the terminfo database stores booleans, numbers and strings in
+ arrays. The capabilities that are listed in the arrays are
+ specified by X/Open. ncurses recognizes a number of obsolete and
+ extended names which are stored past the end of the specified
+ entries.
+
+ + a change to read_entry.c in 951001 made the library do an lseek()
+ call incorrectly skipping data which is already read from the
+ string array. This happens when the number of strings in the
+ terminfo data file is greater than STRCOUNT, the number of
+ specified and obsolete or extended strings.
+
+ + as part of alignment with the X/Open final specification, in the
+ 990109 patch we added two new terminfo capabilities:
+ set_a_attributes and set_pglen_inch). This makes the indices for
+ the obsolete and extended capabilities shift up by 2.
+
+ + the last two capabilities in the obsolete/extended list are memu
+ and meml, which are found in most terminfo descriptions for xterm.
+
+ When trying to read this terminfo entry, the spurious lseek()
+ causes the library to attempt to read the final portion of the
+ terminfo data (the text of the string capabilities) 4 characters
+ past its starting point, and reads 4 characters too few. The
+ library rejects the data, and applications are unable to
+ initialize that terminal type.
+
+ FIX: remove memu and meml from the xterm description. They are
+ obsolete, not used by ncurses. (It appears that the feature was
+ added to xterm to make it more like hpterm).
+
+ This is not a problem if you do not use the -x option of tic to
+ create a terminfo database with extended names. Note that the
+ user-defined terminal capabilities are not affected by this bug,
+ since they are stored in a table after the older terminfo data ends,
+ and are invisible to the older libraries.
+
+ c) Some developers did not wish to use the C++ binding, and used the
+ configure --without-cxx option. This causes problems if someone
+ uses the ncurses library from C++ because that configure test
+ determines the type for C++'s bool and makes ncurses match it, since
+ both C++ and curses are specified to declare bool. Calling ncurses
+ functions with the incorrect type for bool will cause execution
+ errors. In 5.0 we added a configure option "--without-cxx-binding"
+ which controls whether the binding itself is built and installed.
+
+ 4.2 (March 2, 1998)
+ Interface changes:
+
+ + correct prototype for termattrs() as per XPG4 version 2.
+
+ + add placeholder prototypes for color_set(), erasewchar(),
+ term_attrs(), wcolor_set() as per XPG4 version 2.
+
+ + add macros getcur[xy] getbeg[xy] getpar[xy], which are defined in
+ SVr4 headers.
+
+ New extensions: keyok() and define_key().
+
+ Terminfo database changes:
+
+ + corrected definition in curses.h for ACS_LANTERN, which was 'I'
+ rather than 'i'.
+
+ 4.1 (May 15, 1997)
+
+ We added these extensions: use_default_colors(). Also added
+ configure option --enable-const, to support the use of const where
+ X/Open should have, but did not, specify.
+
+ The terminfo database content changed the representation of color for
+ most entries that use ANSI colors. SVr4 curses treats the setaf/setab
+ and setf/setb capabilities differently, interchanging the red/blue
+ colors in the latter.
+
+ 4.0 (December 24, 1996)
+
+ We bumped to version 4.0 because the newly released dynamic loader
+ (ld.so.1.8.5) on Linux did not load shared libraries whose ABI and REL
+ versions were inconsistent. At that point, ncurses ABI was 3.4 and the
+ REL was 1.9.9g, so we made them consistent.
+
+ 1.9.9g (December 1, 1996)
+
+ This fixed most of the problems with 1.9.9e, and made these interface
+ changes:
+
+ + remove tparam(), which had been provided for compatibility with
+ some termcap. tparm() is standard, and does not conflict with
+ application's fallback for missing tparam().
+
+ + turn off hardware echo in initscr(). This changes the sense of the
+ echo() function, which was initialized to echoing rather than
+ nonechoing (the latter is specified). There were several other
+ corrections to the terminal I/O settings which cause applications to
+ behave differently.
+
+ + implemented several functions (such as attr_on()) which were
+ available only as macros.
+
+ + corrected several typos in curses.h.in (i.e., the mvXXXX macros).
+
+ + corrected prototypes for delay_output(),
+ has_color, immedok() and idcok().
+
+ + corrected misspelled getbkgd(). Some applications used the
+ misspelled name.
+
+ + added _yoffset to WINDOW. The size of WINDOW does not impact
+ applications, since they use only pointers to WINDOW structs.
+
+ These changes were made to the terminfo database:
+
+ + removed boolean 'getm' which was available as an extended name.
+
+ We added these extensions: wresize(), resizeterm(), has_key() and
+ mcprint().
+
+ 1.9.9e (March 24, 1996)
+
+ not recommended (a last-minute/untested change left the forms and
+ menus libraries unusable since they do not repaint the screen).
+ Foreground/background colors are combined incorrectly, working properly
+ only on a black background. When this was released, the X/Open
+ specification was available only in draft form.
+
+ Some applications (such as lxdialog) were "fixed" to work with the
+ incorrect color scheme.
+
+
+IF YOU ARE A SYSTEM INTEGRATOR:
+------------------------------
+
+ Configuration and Installation:
+
+ On platforms where ncurses is assumed to be installed in /usr/lib,
+ the configure script uses "/usr" as a default:
+
+ Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Cygwin
+
+ For other platforms, the default is "/usr/local". See the discussion
+ of the "--disable-overwrite" option.
+
+ The location of the terminfo is set indirectly by the "--datadir"
+ configure option, e.g., /usr/share/terminfo, given a datadir of
+ /usr/share. You may want to override this if you are installing
+ ncurses libraries in nonstandard locations, but wish to share the
+ terminfo database.
+
+ Normally the ncurses library is configured in a pure-terminfo mode;
+ that is, with the --disable-termcap option. This makes the ncurses
+ library smaller and faster. The ncurses library includes a termcap
+ emulation that queries the terminfo database, so even applications that
+ use raw termcap to query terminal characteristics will win (providing
+ you recompile and relink them!).
+
+ If you must configure with termcap fallback enabled, you may also wish
+ to use the --enable-getcap option. This speeds up termcap-based
+ startups, at the expense of not allowing personal termcap entries to
+ reference the terminfo tree. See comments in
+ ncurses/tinfo/read_termcap.c for further details.
+
+ Note that if you have $TERMCAP set, ncurses will use that value
+ to locate termcap data. In particular, running from xterm will
+ set $TERMCAP to the contents of the xterm's termcap entry.
+ If ncurses sees that, it will not examine /etc/termcap.
+
+ Keyboard Mapping:
+
+ The terminfo file assumes that Shift-Tab generates \E[Z (the ECMA-48
+ reverse-tabulation sequence) rather than ^I. Here are the loadkeys -d
+ mappings that will set this up:
+
+ keycode 15 = Tab Tab
+ alt keycode 15 = Meta_Tab
+ shift keycode 15 = F26
+ string F26 ="\033[Z"
+
+ Naming the Console Terminal
+
+ In various systems there has been a practice of designating the system
+ console driver type as `console'. Please do not do this! It
+ complicates peoples' lives, because it can mean that several different
+ terminfo entries from different operating systems all logically want to
+ be called `console'.
+
+ Please pick a name unique to your console driver and set that up
+ in the /etc/inittab table or local equivalent. Send the entry to the
+ terminfo maintainer (listed in the misc/terminfo file) to be included
+ in the terminfo file, if it's not already there. See the
+ term(7) manual page included with this distribution for more on
+ conventions for choosing type names.
+
+ Here are some recommended primary console names:
+
+ linux -- Linux console driver
+ freebsd -- FreeBSD
+ netbsd -- NetBSD
+ bsdos -- BSD/OS
+
+ If you are responsible for integrating ncurses for one of these
+ distribution, please either use the recommended name or get back
+ to us explaining why you don't want to, so we can work out nomenclature
+ that will make users' lives easier rather than harder.
+
+
+RECENT XTERM VERSIONS:
+---------------------
+
+ The terminfo database file included with this distribution assumes you
+ are running a modern xterm based on XFree86 (i.e., xterm-new). The
+ earlier X11R6 entry (xterm-r6) and X11R5 entry (xterm-r5) is provided
+ as well. See the --without-xterm-new configure script option if you
+ are unable to update your system.
+
+
+CONFIGURING FALLBACK ENTRIES:
+----------------------------
+
+ In order to support operation of ncurses programs before the terminfo
+ tree is accessible (that is, in single-user mode or at OS installation
+ time) the ncurses library can be compiled to include an array of
+ pre-fetched fallback entries. This must be done on a machine which
+ has ncurses' infocmp and terminfo database installed.
+
+ These entries are checked by setupterm() only when the conventional
+ fetches from the terminfo tree and the termcap fallback (if configured)
+ have been tried and failed. Thus, the presence of a fallback will not
+ shadow modifications to the on-disk entry for the same type, when that
+ entry is accessible.
+
+ By default, there are no entries on the fallback list. After you have
+ built the ncurses suite for the first time, you can change the list
+ (the process needs infocmp(1)). To do so, use the script
+ ncurses/tinfo/MKfallback.sh. A configure script option
+ --with-fallbacks does this (it accepts a comma-separated list of the
+ names you wish, and does not require a rebuild).
+
+ If you wanted (say) to have linux, vt100, and xterm fallbacks, you
+ would use the commands
+
+ cd ncurses;
+ tinfo/MKfallback.sh linux vt100 xterm >fallback.c
+
+ Then just rebuild and reinstall the library as you would normally.
+ You can restore the default empty fallback list with
+
+ tinfo/MKfallback.sh >fallback.c
+
+ The overhead for an empty fallback list is one trivial stub function.
+ Any non-empty fallback list is const-ed and therefore lives in sharable
+ text space. You can look at the comment trailing each initializer in
+ the generated ncurses/fallback.c file to see the core cost of the
+ fallbacks. A good rule of thumb for modern vt100-like entries is that
+ each one will cost about 2.5K of text space.
+
+
+BSD CONVERSION NOTES:
+--------------------
+
+ If you need to support really ancient BSD programs, you probably
+ want to configure with the --enable-bsdpad option. What this does
+ is enable code in tputs() that recognizes a numeric prefix on a
+ capability as a request for that much trailing padding in milliseconds.
+ There are old BSD programs that do things like tputs("50").
+
+ (If you are distributing ncurses as a support-library component of
+ an application you probably want to put the remainder of this section
+ in the package README file.)
+
+ The following note applies only if you have configured ncurses with
+ --enable-termcap.
+
+------------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------------
+
+If you are installing this application privately (either because you
+have no root access or want to experiment with it before doing a root
+installation), there are a couple of details you need to be aware of.
+They have to do with the ncurses library, which uses terminfo rather
+than termcap for describing terminal characteristics.
+
+Though the ncurses library is terminfo-based, it will interpret your
+TERMCAP variable (if present), any local termcap files you reference
+through it, and the system termcap file. However, in order to avoid
+slowing down your application startup, it will only do this once per
+terminal type!
+
+The first time you load a given terminal type from your termcap
+database, the library initialization code will automatically write it
+in terminfo format to a subdirectory under $HOME/.terminfo. After
+that, the initialization code will find it there and do a (much
+faster) terminfo fetch.
+
+Usually, all this means is that your home directory will silently grow
+an invisible .terminfo subdirectory which will get filled in with
+terminfo descriptions of terminal types as you invoke them. If anyone
+ever installs a global terminfo tree on your system, this will quietly
+stop happening and your $HOME/.terminfo will become redundant.
+
+The objective of all this logic is to make converting from BSD termcap
+as painless as possible without slowing down your application (termcap
+compilation is expensive).
+
+If you don't have a TERMCAP variable or custom personal termcap file,
+you can skip the rest of this dissertation.
+
+If you *do* have a TERMCAP variable and/or a custom personal termcap file
+that defines a terminal type, that definition will stop being visible
+to this application after the first time you run it, because it will
+instead see the terminfo entry that it wrote to $HOME/terminfo the
+first time around.
+
+Subsequently, editing the TERMCAP variable or personal TERMCAP file
+will have no effect unless you explicitly remove the terminfo entry
+under $HOME/terminfo. If you do that, the entry will be recompiled
+from your termcap resources the next time it is invoked.
+
+To avoid these complications, use infocmp(1) and tic(1) to edit the
+terminfo directory directly.
+
+------------------------------- CUT HERE --------------------------------
+
+USING NCURSES WITH AFS:
+ AFS treats each directory as a separate logical filesystem, you
+ can't hard-link across them. The --enable-symlinks option copes
+ with this by making tic use symbolic links.
+
+USING NCURSES WITH GPM:
+ Ncurses 4.1 and up can be configured to use GPM (General Purpose
+ Mouse) which is used on Linux console. Be aware that GPM is commonly
+ installed as a shared library which contains a wrapper for the curses
+ wgetch() function (libcurses.o). Some integrators have simplified
+ linking applications by combining all or part of libcurses.so into the
+ libgpm.so file, producing symbol conflicts with ncurses (specifically
+ the wgetch function). This was originally the BSD curses, but
+ generally whatever curses library exists on the system.
+
+ You may be able to work around this problem by linking as follows:
+
+ cc -o foo foo.o -lncurses -lgpm -lncurses
+
+ but the linker may not cooperate, producing mysterious errors.
+ See the FAQ, as well as the discussion under the --with-gpm option:
+
+ http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.faq.html#using_gpm_lib
+
+BUILDING NCURSES WITH A CROSS-COMPILER
+ Ncurses can be built with a cross-compiler. Some parts must be built
+ with the host's compiler since they are used for building programs
+ (e.g., ncurses/make_hash and ncurses/make_keys) that generate tables
+ that are compiled into the ncurses library. The essential thing to do
+ is set the BUILD_CC environment variable to your host's compiler, and
+ run the configure script configuring for the cross-compiler.
+
+ The configure options --with-build-cc, etc., are provided to make this
+ simpler. Since make_hash and make_keys use only ANSI C features, it
+ is normally not necessary to provide the other options such as
+ --with-build-libs, but they are provided for completeness.
+
+ Note that all of the generated source-files which are part of ncurses
+ will be made if you use
+
+ make sources
+
+ This would be useful in porting to an environment which has little
+ support for the tools used to generate the sources, e.g., sed, awk and
+ Bourne-shell.
+
+ When ncurses has been successfully cross-compiled, you may want to use
+ "make install" (with a suitable target directory) to construct an
+ install tree. Note that in this case (as with the --with-fallbacks
+ option), ncurses uses the development platform's tic to do the
+ "make install.data" portion.
+
+BUGS:
+ Send any feedback to the ncurses mailing list at
+ bug-ncurses@gnu.org. To subscribe send mail to
+ bug-ncurses-request@gnu.org with body that reads:
+ subscribe ncurses <your-email-address-here>
+
+ The Hacker's Guide in the doc directory includes some guidelines
+ on how to report bugs in ways that will get them fixed most quickly.
+
+-- vile:txtmode