chapter05/ncurses.xml

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   8 <sect1 id="ch-tools-ncurses" role="wrap">
   9   <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
  10
  11   <sect1info condition="script">
  12     <productname>ncurses</productname>
  13     <productnumber>&ncurses-version;</productnumber>
  14     <address>&ncurses-url;</address>
  15   </sect1info>
  16
  17   <title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
  18
  19   <indexterm zone="ch-tools-ncurses">
  20     <primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary>
  21     <secondary>tools</secondary>
  22   </indexterm>
  23
  24   <sect2 role="package">
  25     <title/>
  26
  27     <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
  28     href="../chapter06/ncurses.xml"
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  30
  31     <segmentedlist>
  32       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
  33       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
  34
  35       <seglistitem>
  36         <seg>&ncurses-ch5-sbu;</seg>
  37         <seg>&ncurses-ch5-du;</seg>
  38       </seglistitem>
  39     </segmentedlist>
  40
  41   </sect2>
  42
  43   <sect2 role="installation">
  44     <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
  45
  46     <para>First, ensure that <command>gawk</command> is found first during configuration:</para>
  47
  48 <screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i s/mawk// configure</userinput></screen>
  49
  50     <para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
  51
  52 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/tools \
  53             --with-shared   \
  54             --without-debug \
  55             --without-ada   \
  56             --enable-widec  \
  57             --enable-overwrite</userinput></screen>
  58
  59     <variablelist>
  60       <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
  61
  62       <varlistentry>
  63         <term><parameter>--without-ada</parameter></term>
  64         <listitem>
  65           <para>This ensures that Ncurses does not build support for the Ada
  66           compiler which may be present on the host but will not be available
  67           once we enter the <command>chroot</command> environment.</para>
  68         </listitem>
  69       </varlistentry>
  70
  71       <varlistentry>
  72         <term><parameter>--enable-overwrite</parameter></term>
  73         <listitem>
  74           <para>This tells Ncurses to install its header files into
  75           <filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename>, instead of
  76           <filename class="directory">/tools/include/ncurses</filename>, to
  77           ensure that other packages can find the Ncurses headers
  78           successfully.</para>
  79         </listitem>
  80       </varlistentry>
  81
  82       <varlistentry>
  83         <term><parameter>--enable-widec</parameter></term>
  84         <listitem>
  85           <para>This switch causes wide-character libraries (e.g., <filename
  86           class="libraryfile">libncursesw.so.&ncurses-version;</filename>)
  87           to be built instead of normal ones (e.g., <filename
  88           class="libraryfile">libncurses.so.&ncurses-version;</filename>).
  89           These wide-character libraries are usable in both multibyte and
  90           traditional 8-bit locales, while normal libraries work properly
  91           only in 8-bit locales. Wide-character and normal libraries are
  92           source-compatible, but not binary-compatible.</para>
  93         </listitem>
  94       </varlistentry>
  95
  96     </variablelist>
  97
  98     <para>Compile the package:</para>
  99
 100 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 101
 102     <para>This package has a test suite, but it can only be run after the
 103     package has been installed.  The tests reside in the
 104     <filename class="directory">test/</filename> directory.  See the
 105     <filename>README</filename> file in that directory for further details.
 106     </para>
 107
 108     <para>Install the package:</para>
 109
 110 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install
 111 ln -s libncursesw.so /tools/lib/libncurses.so</userinput></screen>
 112
 113   </sect2>
 114
 115   <sect2 role="content">
 116     <title/>
 117
 118     <para>Details on this package are located in
 119     <xref linkend="contents-ncurses" role="."/></para>
 120
 121   </sect2>
 122
 123 </sect1>