Changeset a8a0720 for BOOK/final-system/common/ncurses.xml

Timestamp:

Jun 26, 2014, 12:51:35 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

Chris Staub <chris@…>

Branches:

clfs-3.0.0-sysvinit, sysvinit

Children:

d910285

Parents:

357e89c

git-author:

Chris Staub <chris@…> (06/25/14 15:53:59)

git-committer:

Chris Staub <chris@…> (06/26/14 00:51:35)

Message:

Text updates for ncurses

File:

• BOOK/final-system/common/ncurses.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

BOOK/final-system/common/ncurses.xml

@@ -42 +42 @@
 <screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para os="e">This package has a test suite, and can be ran after the
-    package is installed. The tests are in the
+    <para os="e">This package has a test suite, but it can only be run after
+    the package is installed. The tests are in the
     <filename class="directory">test/</filename> directory. See the
     <filename>README</filename> file in that directory for details.</para>
@@ -63 +63 @@
 rm -v /lib/lib{ncursesw,menuw,panelw,formw}.so</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para os="l">Now we will make our Ncurses compatible for older and non-widec compatible programs
-    can build properly:</para>
+    <para os="l">Many packages that use Ncurses will compile just fine against
+    the widechar libraries, but won't know to look for them. Create linker
+    scripts and symbolic links to allow older and non-widec compatible
+    programs to build properly:</para>
 
 <screen os="m"><userinput>for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do