source: clfs-sysroot/BOOK/final-system/common/ncurses.xml @ c8063d1

Last change on this file since c8063d1 was c8063d1, checked in by Joe Ciccone <jciccone@…>, 15 years ago

Remove some redundancy in the terminfo symlink command for ncurses.

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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-system-ncurses" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
10
11  <title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses">
14    <primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent
21    handling of character screens.</para>
22
23  </sect2>
24
25  &env-target;
26
27  <sect2 role="installation">
28    <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
29
30    <para os="p1">The following patch contains updates from the &ncurses-version; branch
31    by the Ncurses developers:</para>
32
33<screen os="p2"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-branch_update-patch;</userinput></screen>
34
35    <para os="p3">This patch fixes an issue with some Bash versions:</para>
36
37<screen os="p4"><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-bashfix-patch;</userinput></screen>
38
39    <para os="a">Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
40
41<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} \
42    --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib --with-shared \
43    --enable-widec --without-debug --without-ada \
44    --with-build-cc="gcc -D_GNU_SOURCE"</userinput></screen>
45
46    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
47
48<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
49
50    <para os="e">Install the package:</para>
51
52<screen os="f"><userinput>make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install</userinput></screen>
53
54    <para os="g">Move the Ncurses static libraries to the proper location:</para>
55
56<screen os="h"><userinput>mv -v ${CLFS}/lib/lib{panelw,menuw,formw,ncursesw,ncurses++w}.a \
57    ${CLFS}/usr/lib</userinput></screen>
58
59    <para os="i">Create symlinks in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib:</filename></para>
60
61<screen os="j"><userinput>rm -v ${CLFS}/lib/lib{ncursesw,menuw,panelw,formw}.so
62ln -sfv ../../lib/libncursesw.so.&ncurses-version2; ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libncursesw.so
63ln -sfv ../../lib/libmenuw.so.&ncurses-version2; ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libmenuw.so
64ln -sfv ../../lib/libpanelw.so.&ncurses-version2; ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libpanelw.so
65ln -sfv ../../lib/libformw.so.&ncurses-version2; ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libformw.so</userinput></screen>
66
67   <para os="k">Now we will make our Ncurses compatible for older and non-widec compatible programs
68    can build properly:</para>
69
70<screen os="l"><userinput>for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do
71        echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" > ${CLFS}/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
72        ln -sfv lib${lib}w.a ${CLFS}/usr/lib/lib${lib}.a
73done
74ln -sfv libncursesw.so ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libcursesw.so
75ln -sfv libncursesw.a ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libcursesw.a
76ln -sfv libncurses++w.a ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libncurses++.a
77ln -sfv ncursesw5-config ${CLFS}/usr/bin/ncurses5-config</userinput></screen>
78
79    <para os="m">Now we will create a symlink for /usr/share/terminfo in
80    <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> for compatibility:</para>
81
82<screen os="n"><userinput>ln -sfv ../share/terminfo ${CLFS}/usr/lib/terminfo</userinput></screen>
83
84  </sect2>
85
86  <sect2 id="contents-ncurses" role="content">
87    <title>Contents of Ncurses</title>
88
89    <segmentedlist>
90      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
91      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
92
93      <seglistitem>
94        <seg>captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic),
95        ncursesw5-config, reset (link to tset), tabs, tic, toe, tput, and tset</seg>
96        <seg>libcursesw.so (link to libncursesw.so), libformw.[a,so],
97        libmenuw.[a,so], libncurses++w.a, libncursesw.[a,so], and
98        libpanelw.[a,so]</seg>
99      </seglistitem>
100    </segmentedlist>
101
102    <variablelist>
103      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
104      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
105      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
106
107      <varlistentry id="captoinfo">
108        <term><command>captoinfo</command></term>
109        <listitem>
110          <para>Converts a termcap description into a terminfo description</para>
111          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses captoinfo">
112            <primary sortas="b-captoinfo">captoinfo</primary>
113          </indexterm>
114        </listitem>
115      </varlistentry>
116
117      <varlistentry id="clear">
118        <term><command>clear</command></term>
119        <listitem>
120          <para>Clears the screen, if possible</para>
121          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses clear">
122            <primary sortas="b-clear">clear</primary>
123          </indexterm>
124        </listitem>
125      </varlistentry>
126
127      <varlistentry id="infocmp">
128        <term><command>infocmp</command></term>
129        <listitem>
130          <para>Compares or prints out terminfo descriptions</para>
131          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infocmp">
132            <primary sortas="b-infocmp">infocmp</primary>
133          </indexterm>
134        </listitem>
135      </varlistentry>
136
137      <varlistentry id="infotocap">
138        <term><command>infotocap</command></term>
139        <listitem>
140          <para>Converts a terminfo description into a termcap description</para>
141          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infotocap">
142            <primary sortas="b-infotocap">infotocap</primary>
143          </indexterm>
144        </listitem>
145      </varlistentry>
146
147      <varlistentry id="ncursesw5-config">
148        <term><command>ncursesw5-config</command></term>
149        <listitem>
150          <para>Provides configuration information for ncurses</para>
151          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses ncursesw5-config">
152            <primary sortas="b-ncursesw5-config">ncursesw5-config</primary>
153          </indexterm>
154        </listitem>
155      </varlistentry>
156
157      <varlistentry id="reset">
158        <term><command>reset</command></term>
159        <listitem>
160          <para>Reinitializes a terminal to its default values</para>
161          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses reset">
162            <primary sortas="b-reset">reset</primary>
163          </indexterm>
164        </listitem>
165      </varlistentry>
166
167      <varlistentry id="tabs">
168        <term><command>tabs</command></term>
169        <listitem>
170          <para>Sets and clears tab stops on a terminal</para>
171          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tabs">
172            <primary sortas="b-tabs">tabs</primary>
173          </indexterm>
174        </listitem>
175      </varlistentry>
176
177      <varlistentry id="tic">
178        <term><command>tic</command></term>
179        <listitem>
180          <para>The terminfo entry-description compiler that translates a
181          terminfo file from source format into the binary format needed for the
182          ncurses library routines. A terminfo file contains information on the
183          capabilities of a certain terminal</para>
184          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tic">
185            <primary sortas="b-tic">tic</primary>
186          </indexterm>
187        </listitem>
188      </varlistentry>
189
190      <varlistentry id="toe">
191        <term><command>toe</command></term>
192        <listitem>
193          <para>Lists all available terminal types, giving the primary name and
194          description for each</para>
195          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses toe">
196            <primary sortas="b-toe">toe</primary>
197          </indexterm>
198        </listitem>
199      </varlistentry>
200
201      <varlistentry id="tput">
202        <term><command>tput</command></term>
203        <listitem>
204          <para>Makes the values of terminal-dependent capabilities available to
205          the shell; it can also be used to reset or initialize a terminal or
206          report its long name</para>
207          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tput">
208            <primary sortas="b-tput">tput</primary>
209          </indexterm>
210        </listitem>
211      </varlistentry>
212
213      <varlistentry id="tset">
214        <term><command>tset</command></term>
215        <listitem>
216          <para>Can be used to initialize terminals</para>
217          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tset">
218            <primary sortas="b-tset">tset</primary>
219          </indexterm>
220        </listitem>
221      </varlistentry>
222
223      <varlistentry id="libcursesw">
224        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcursesw</filename></term>
225        <listitem>
226          <para>A link to <filename>libncursesw</filename></para>
227          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libcursesw">
228            <primary sortas="c-libcursesw">libcursesw</primary>
229          </indexterm>
230        </listitem>
231      </varlistentry>
232
233      <varlistentry id="libncursesw">
234        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libncursesw</filename></term>
235        <listitem>
236          <para>Contains functions to display text in many complex ways on a
237          terminal screen; a good example of the use of these functions is the
238          menu displayed during the kernel's
239          <command>make menuconfig</command></para>
240          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libncursesw">
241            <primary sortas="c-libncursesw">libncursesw</primary>
242          </indexterm>
243        </listitem>
244      </varlistentry>
245
246      <varlistentry id="libformw">
247        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libformw</filename></term>
248        <listitem>
249          <para>Contains functions to implement forms</para>
250          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libformw">
251            <primary sortas="c-libform">libformw</primary>
252          </indexterm>
253        </listitem>
254      </varlistentry>
255
256      <varlistentry id="libmenuw">
257        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmenuw</filename></term>
258        <listitem>
259          <para>Contains functions to implement menus</para>
260          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libmenuw">
261            <primary sortas="c-libmenuw">libmenuw</primary>
262          </indexterm>
263        </listitem>
264      </varlistentry>
265
266      <varlistentry id="libpanelw">
267        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpanelw</filename></term>
268        <listitem>
269          <para>Contains functions to implement panels</para>
270          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libpanelw">
271            <primary sortas="c-libpanelw">libpanelw</primary>
272          </indexterm>
273        </listitem>
274      </varlistentry>
275
276    </variablelist>
277
278  </sect2>
279
280</sect1>
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