Changeset 2505b8f for chapter06/ncurses.xml

Timestamp:

07/08/2020 07:36:00 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl <thomas@…>

Branches:

multilib-10.1

Children:

48a69fc

Parents:

ad25331

Message:

Merge changes from trunk to multilib

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/multilib@11997 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/ncurses.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/ncurses.xml

@@ -121 +121 @@
 
     <para>Install the package:</para>
-<!-- TODO: check and document -->
+
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$LFS TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic install
-ln -s libncursesw.so $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</userinput></screen>
+echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</userinput></screen>
+
+    <variablelist>
+      <title>The meaning of the install options:</title>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>We need to pass the path of the just built
+          <command>tic</command> able to run on the building machine, so that
+          the terminal database can be created without errors.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><command>echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" > $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</command></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>The <filename>libncurses.so</filename> library is needed by
+          a few packages we will build soon. We create this small linker
+          script, as this is what is done in <xref
+          linkend="chapter-building-system"/>.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+    </variablelist>
 
     <para>Move the shared libraries to the