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[7153563]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-cross-tools-ncurses" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
10
11 <title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-cross-tools-ncurses">
14 <primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary>
[979b26f]15 <secondary>cross tools</secondary>
[7153563]16 </indexterm>
17
[dabbced]18 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[7153563]19 href="../../final-system/common/ncurses.xml"
20 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
21
22 <sect2 role="installation">
23 <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
24
[1b9516f]25 <para os="e1">When Ncurses is compiled, it executes <command>tic</command>
26 to create a terminfo database in
27 <filename class="directory">${prefix}/share/terminfo</filename>. If
28 possible, the <filename>Makefile</filename> will use the
29 <command>tic</command> binary that was just compiled in its
30 source tree, but this does not work when Ncurses is cross-compiled. To
31 allow the Ncurses build in <xref linkend="chapter-temp-system" /> to succeed, we
32 will build and install a <command>tic</command> program that can be run on
33 the host system.</para>
34
[c561eaa]35<!--Ncurses Branch Update Area
[dabbced]36 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[7153563]37 href="../../temp-system/common/ncurses.xml"
38 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p1'])"/>
39
[dabbced]40 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
[7153563]41 href="../../temp-system/common/ncurses.xml"
42 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='p2'])"/>
[c561eaa]43-->
[7153563]44
45 <para os="a">Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
46
[b27081c4]47<screen os="b"><userinput>AWK=gawk ./configure \
48 --prefix=/cross-tools \
[681f7cf]49 --without-debug</userinput></screen>
[7153563]50
[ee47e58]51 <variablelist os="b1">
52 <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
53
54 <varlistentry os="b2">
55 <term><parameter>--without-debug</parameter></term>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>Tells Ncurses to build without debugging information.</para>
58 </listitem>
59 </varlistentry>
60
61 </variablelist>
62
[a6b67b3]63 <para os="c">Only one binary is needed for the Cross-Tools. Build the
64 headers and then build <command>tic</command>:</para>
[7153563]65
66<screen os="d"><userinput>make -C include
67make -C progs tic</userinput></screen>
68
[9f5a80a]69 <para os="e">Install <command>tic</command> with the following command:</para>
[7153563]70
[59f743e]71<screen os="f"><userinput>install -v -m755 progs/tic /cross-tools/bin</userinput></screen>
[7153563]72
73 </sect2>
74
75 <sect2 role="content">
76 <title/>
77
78 <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
79 linkend="contents-ncurses" role="."/></para>
80
81 </sect2>
82
83</sect1>
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