Changeset 73b2841 for chapter06/ncurses.xml

Timestamp:

03/15/2015 11:29:31 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

8f7d07eb

Parents:

ecd016b

Message:

Remove non-essential static libraries from the installation. Added a new
section in Chapter 6 Introduction, supressed many static libraries in different
packages, and removed the remaining in the Cleaning Up section.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10880 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter06/ncurses.xml (modified) (6 diffs)

chapter06/ncurses.xml

@@ -42 +42 @@
     <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
 
-    <!-- FIXME: Uncomment if using a dated ncurses release instead of a numbered
-         one.
-
-    <para>Since the release of Ncurses-&ncurses-version;, some bugs have been fixed
-    and features added. The most important news are .......
-    To get these fixes and features, apply the rollup patch:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>bzcat ../&ncurses-rollup-patch; | patch -Np1</userinput></screen>
-    -->
+    <para>Don't install a static library that is not handled by configure:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/LIBTOOL_INSTALL/d' c++/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
@@ -58 +52 @@
             --with-shared           \
             --without-debug         \
+            --without-normal        \
             --enable-pc-files       \
             --enable-widec</userinput></screen>
@@ -86 +81 @@
       </varlistentry>
 
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--without-normal</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This switch disables building and installing most static libraries.
+          </para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
     </variablelist>
 
@@ -120 +123 @@
     rm -vf                    /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
     echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" &gt; /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
-    ln -sfv lib${lib}w.a      /usr/lib/lib${lib}.a
     ln -sfv ${lib}w.pc        /usr/lib/pkgconfig/${lib}.pc
-done
-
-ln -sfv libncurses++w.a /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>
+done</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Finally, make sure that old applications that look for
@@ -132 +132 @@
 <screen><userinput remap="install">rm -vf                     /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
 echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" &gt; /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
-ln -sfv libncurses.so      /usr/lib/libcurses.so
-ln -sfv libncursesw.a      /usr/lib/libcursesw.a
-ln -sfv libncurses.a       /usr/lib/libcurses.a</userinput></screen>
+ln -sfv libncurses.so      /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>If desired, install the Ncurses documentation:</para>
@@ -169 +167 @@
 
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic),
-        ncursesw5-config, reset (link to tset), tabs, tic, toe, tput, and tset</seg>
-        <seg>libcursesw.{a,so} (symlink and linker script to libncursesw.{a,so}),
-        libformw.{a,so}, libmenuw.{a,so}, libncurses++w.a, libncursesw.{a,so},
-        libpanelw.{a,so}, and their non-wide-character counterparts without "w"
-        in the library names.</seg>
-        <seg>/usr/share/tabset, /usr/share/terminfo, and
-        /usr/share/doc/ncurses-&ncurses-version;</seg>
+        <seg>
+           captoinfo (link to tic), 
+           clear, 
+           infocmp, 
+           infotocap (link to tic),
+           ncursesw5-config, 
+           reset (link to tset), 
+           tabs, 
+           tic, 
+           toe, 
+           tput, and 
+           tset
+        </seg>
+        <seg>
+           libcursesw.so (symlink and linker script to libncursesw.so),
+           libformw.so, 
+           libmenuw.so, 
+           libncursesw.so,
+           libpanelw.so, and their non-wide-character counterparts without "w"
+              in the library names.</seg>
+        <seg>
+           /usr/share/tabset, 
+           /usr/share/terminfo, and
+           /usr/share/doc/ncurses-&ncurses-version;
+        </seg>
       </seglistitem>
     </segmentedlist>