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authorAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-11-01 22:31:50 +0000
committerAlex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-11-01 22:31:50 +0000
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Merging caption and installation sections for all packages in chapters 5 and 6.
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@@ -7,7 +7,49 @@ Estimated required disk space: &ncurses-compsize-tools;</screen>
&aa-ncurses-shortdesc;
&aa-ncurses-dep;
-&c5-ncurses-inst;
+
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
+<sect2>
+<title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
+
+<para>Fix two minor things:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-etip-patch;
+patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-vsscanf-patch;</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The first patch corrects the <filename>etip.h</filename> header file, and
+the second patch prevents some compiler warnings being issued on the use of
+deprecated headers.</para>
+
+<para>Now prepare Ncurses to be compiled:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite</userinput></screen>
+
+<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
+
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem><para><userinput>--without-ada</userinput>: This tells Ncurses not
+to build its Ada bindings, even if an Ada compiler is installed on the host.
+This must be done because once we enter the chroot environment, Ada will no
+longer be available.</para></listitem>
+
+<listitem><para><userinput>--enable-overwrite</userinput>: This tells Ncurses
+to install its header files into <filename class="directory">/tools/include</filename>
+instead of <filename class="directory">/tools/include/ncurses</filename> to
+ensure that other packages can find the Ncurses headers successfully.</para>
+</listitem></itemizedlist>
+
+<para>Compile the programs and libraries:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make </userinput></screen>
+
+<para>Then install them and their documentation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
+
+</sect2>
</sect1>