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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-temp-system-ncurses" role="wrap">
9 <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
10
11 <title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
12
13 <indexterm zone="ch-temp-system-ncurses">
14 <primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary>
15 <secondary>temporary system</secondary>
16 </indexterm>
17
18 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
19 href="../../final-system/common/ncurses.xml"
20 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@role='package'])"/>
21
22 <sect2 role="installation">
23 <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
24
25 <para os="h">We will need Ncurses for several other packages in the
26 temporary environment, including Bash, Util-linux, and Vim.</para>
27
28 <para os="p1">The following patch fixes an issue with some Bash versions:</para>
29
30<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-bashfix-patch;</userinput></screen>
31
32 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
33 href="../../final-system/common/ncurses.xml"
34 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='a'])"/>
35
36<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
37 --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \
38 --without-debug --without-ada \
39 --enable-overwrite --with-build-cc=gcc</userinput></screen>
40
41 <variablelist os="c">
42 <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
43
44 <varlistentry>
45 <term><parameter>--with-shared</parameter></term>
46 <listitem>
47 <para>This tells Ncurses to create a shared library.</para>
48 </listitem>
49 </varlistentry>
50
51 <varlistentry>
52 <term><parameter>--without-debug</parameter></term>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>This tells Ncurses not to build with debug information.</para>
55 </listitem>
56 </varlistentry>
57
58 <varlistentry>
59 <term><parameter>--without-ada</parameter></term>
60 <listitem>
61 <para>This ensures that Ncurses does not build support for the
62 Ada compiler which may be present on the host but will not be
63 available when building the final system.</para>
64 </listitem>
65 </varlistentry>
66
67 <varlistentry>
68 <term><parameter>--enable-overwrite</parameter></term>
69 <listitem>
70 <para>This tells Ncurses to install its header files into
71 <filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename>, instead of
72 <filename class="directory">/tools/include/ncurses</filename>, to
73 ensure that other packages can find the Ncurses headers
74 successfully.</para>
75 </listitem>
76 </varlistentry>
77
78 <varlistentry>
79 <term><parameter>--with-build-cc=gcc</parameter></term>
80 <listitem>
81 <para>This tells Ncurses which compiler to use to build native tools
82 when cross-compiling.</para>
83 </listitem>
84 </varlistentry>
85
86 </variablelist>
87
88 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
89 href="../../final-system/common/ncurses.xml"
90 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='c'])"/>
91
92 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
93 href="../../final-system/common/ncurses.xml"
94 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='d'])"/>
95
96 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
97 href="../../final-system/common/ncurses.xml"
98 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='f'])"/>
99
100 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
101 href="../../final-system/common/ncurses.xml"
102 xpointer="xpointer(//*[@os='g'])"/>
103
104 </sect2>
105
106 <sect2 role="content">
107 <title/>
108
109 <para>Details on this package are located in <xref
110 linkend="contents-ncurses" role="."/></para>
111
112 </sect2>
113
114</sect1>
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