source: chapter05/ncurses.xml@ 72d7e28

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<sect1 id="ch-tools-ncurses" role="wrap">
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  <title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-tools-ncurses">
    <primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary>
    <secondary>tools</secondary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

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    href="../chapter06/ncurses.xml"
    xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
      <seg>0.7 SBU</seg>
      <seg>27.5 MB</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <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>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>

      <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>

  </sect2>

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