1 | <sect1 id="ch05-ncurses">
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2 | <title>Installing Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
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3 | <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html" dir="chapter05"?>
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4 |
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5 | <screen>Estimated build time: &ncurses-time-tools;
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6 | Estimated required disk space: &ncurses-compsize-tools;</screen>
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7 |
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8 | &aa-ncurses-shortdesc;
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9 | &aa-ncurses-dep;
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10 |
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11 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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12 |
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13 | <sect2>
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14 | <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
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15 |
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16 | <para>Fix two minor things:</para>
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17 |
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18 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-etip-patch;
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19 | patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-vsscanf-patch;</userinput></screen>
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20 |
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21 | <para>The first patch corrects the <filename>etip.h</filename> header file, and
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22 | the second patch prevents some compiler warnings being issued on the use of
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23 | deprecated headers.</para>
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24 |
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25 | <para>Now prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
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26 |
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27 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
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28 | --without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite</userinput></screen>
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29 |
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30 | <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
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31 |
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32 | <itemizedlist>
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33 | <listitem><para><userinput>--without-ada</userinput>: This tells Ncurses not
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34 | to build its Ada bindings, even if an Ada compiler is installed on the host.
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35 | This must be done because once we enter the chroot environment, Ada will no
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36 | longer be available.</para></listitem>
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37 |
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38 | <listitem><para><userinput>--enable-overwrite</userinput>: This tells Ncurses
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39 | to install its header files into <filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename>
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40 | instead of <filename class="directory">/tools/include/ncurses</filename> to
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41 | ensure that other packages can find the Ncurses headers successfully.</para>
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42 | </listitem></itemizedlist>
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43 |
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44 | <para>Compile the programs and libraries:</para>
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45 |
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46 | <screen><userinput>make </userinput></screen>
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47 |
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48 | <para>Then install them and their documentation:</para>
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49 |
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50 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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51 |
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52 | </sect2>
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53 |
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54 | </sect1>
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55 |
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