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Reverting UTF-8 changes until everything is in place.

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    2929<sect2 role="installation">
    3030<title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
    31 <!-- Uncomment if using a dated ncurses release instead of a numbered one.
    32 
    33 <para>Since the release of Ncurses-&ncurses-version;, some bugs have been fixed
    34 and features added. The most important news are .......
    35 To get these fixes and features, apply the rollup patch:</para>
    36 
    37 <screen><userinput>bzcat ../&ncurses-rollup-patch; | patch -Np1</userinput></screen>
    38 -->
    39 
    40 <para>Since the release of Ncurses-&ncurses-version;, a memory leak and some
    41 display bugs were found and fixed upstream. Apply those fixes:</para>
    42 
    43 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-fixes-patch;</userinput></screen>
    4431
    4532<para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
    4633
    47 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared --without-debug --enable-widec</userinput></screen>
    48 
    49 <para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
    50 
    51 <variablelist>
    52 <varlistentry>
    53 <term><parameter>--enable-widec</parameter></term>
    54 <listitem><para>This switch causes wide-character libraries
    55 (e.g. <filename class="libraryfile">libncursesw.so.&ncurses-version;</filename>)
    56 to be built instead of normal ones
    57 (e.g. <filename class="libraryfile">libncurses.so.&ncurses-version;</filename>).
    58 Those wide-character libraries are usable in both multibyte and traditional 8-bit
    59 locales, while normal libraries work properly only in 8-bit locales.
    60 Wide-character and normal libraries are source-compatible, but not
    61 binary-compatible.</para>
    62 </listitem>
    63 </varlistentry>
    64 <!--
    65 <varlistentry>
    66 <term><parameter>- -without-cxx-binding</parameter></term>
    67 <listitem><para>This optional switch causes the
    68 <filename class="libraryfile">libncurses++w.a</filename> library
    69 not to be built. Nothing in LFS and BLFS uses this library.</para>
    70 </listitem>
    71 </varlistentry>
    72 -->
    73 </variablelist>
     34<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared --without-debug</userinput></screen>
    7435
    7536<para>Compile the package:</para>
    … …  
    8950<para>Fix a library that should not be executable:</para>
    9051
    91 <screen><userinput>chmod -v 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.a</userinput></screen>
     52<screen><userinput>chmod -v 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>
    9253
    9354<para>Move the libraries to the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory,
    9455where they are expected to reside:</para>
    9556
    96 <screen><userinput>mv -v /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>
    97 
    98 <para>Because the libraries have been moved, one symlink points to
    99 a non-existent file. Recreate it:</para>
    100 
    101 <screen><userinput>ln -sfv ../../lib/libncursesw.so.5 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so</userinput></screen>
    102 
    103 <para>Many applications still expect the linker to be able to find
    104 non-wide-character Ncurses libraries. Trick such applications into linking with
    105 wide-character libraries by means of symlinks and linker scripts:</para>
    106 
    107 <screen><userinput>for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do \
    108         rm -vf /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \
    109         echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" &gt;/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \
    110         ln -sfv lib${lib}w.a /usr/lib/lib${lib}.a ; \
    111 done &amp;&amp;
    112 ln -sfv libncurses++w.a /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>
    113 
    114 <para>Finally, make sure that really old applications that look for
    115 <filename class="libaryfile">-lcurses</filename> at build time are still
    116 buildable:</para>
    117 
    118 <screen><userinput>echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" &gt;/usr/lib/libcursesw.so &amp;&amp;
    119 ln -sfv libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so &amp;&amp;
    120 ln -sfv libncursesw.a /usr/lib/libcursesw.a &amp;&amp;
    121 ln -sfv libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a</userinput></screen>
    122 
    123 <note><para>The instructions above don't create non-wide-character Ncurses
    124 libraries since nothing in LFS and BLFS would link against them at runtime.
    125 If you must have such libraries because of some binary-only application,
    126 build them with the following commands:</para>
    127 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>make distclean &amp;&amp;
    128 ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared --without-normal \
    129         --without-debug --without-cxx-binding &amp;&amp;
    130 make sources libs &amp;&amp;
    131 cp -av lib/lib*.so.5* /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
    132 </note>
     57<screen><userinput>mv -v /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>
     58
     59<para>Because the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks point to
     60non-existent files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
     61
     62<screen><userinput>ln -sfv ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
     63ln -sfv libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen>
    13364</sect2>
    13465
    … …  
    14172<seglistitem><seg>captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic),
    14273reset (link to tset), tack, tic, toe, tput, and tset</seg>
    143 <seg>libcursesw.[a,so] (symlink and linker script to libncursesw.[a,so]),
    144 libformw.[a,so], libmenuw.[a,so],
    145 libncurses++w.a, libncursesw.[a,so], libpanelw.[a,so] and their
    146 non-wide-character counterparts without "w" in the library names.</seg></seglistitem>
     74<seg>libcurses.[a,so] (link to libncurses.[a,so]), libform.[a,so], libmenu.[a,so],
     75libncurses++.a, libncurses.[a,so], and libpanel.[a,so]</seg></seglistitem>
    14776</segmentedlist>
    14877
    … …  
    284213
    285214</sect1>
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