Changeset 73aedd1d for chapter06/ncurses.xml

Timestamp:

11/01/2003 10:31:50 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Alex Gronenwoud <alex@…>

Branches:

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Parents:

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Message:

Merging caption and installation sections for all packages in chapters 5 and 6.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3052 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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

chapter06/ncurses.xml

@@ -8 +8 @@
 &aa-ncurses-shortdesc;
 &aa-ncurses-dep;
-&c6-ncurses-inst;
+
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
+
+<para>First fix two tiny bugs:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-etip-patch;
+patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-vsscanf-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The first patch corrects the <filename>etip.h</filename> header file, and
+the second patch prevents some compiler warnings on the use of deprecated
+headers.</para>
+
+<para>Now prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared \
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--without-debug</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Give the Ncurses libraries execute permissions:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>And fix a library that shouldn't be executable:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Move the libraries to the <filename>/lib</filename> directory,
+where they're expected to reside:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Since the libraries have been moved to
+<filename>/lib</filename>, a few symlinks are currently pointing
+towards non-existing files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
+ln -sf libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen>
+</sect2>
 
 </sect1>