Initial commit of alternative cross LFS

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/cross2@11897 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

1 files changed, 58 insertions, 281 deletions

diff --git a/chapter06/ncurses.xml b/chapter06/ncurses.xml
index b37f1f69c..93cf85263 100644
--- a/chapter06/ncurses.xml
+++ b/chapter06/ncurses.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   %general-entities;
 ]>
 
-<sect1 id="ch-system-ncurses" role="wrap">
+<sect1 id="ch-tools-ncurses" role="wrap">
   <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
 
   <sect1info condition="script">
@@ -16,23 +16,25 @@
 
   <title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
 
-  <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses">
+  <indexterm zone="ch-tools-ncurses">
     <primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary>
+    <secondary>tools</secondary>
   </indexterm>
 
   <sect2 role="package">
     <title/>
 
-    <para>The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent
-    handling of character screens.</para>
+    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
+    href="../chapter08/ncurses.xml"
+    xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
 
     <segmentedlist>
       <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
       <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
 
       <seglistitem>
-        <seg>&ncurses-ch6-sbu;</seg>
-        <seg>&ncurses-ch6-du;</seg>
+        <seg>&ncurses-ch5-sbu;</seg>
+        <seg>&ncurses-ch5-du;</seg>
       </seglistitem>
     </segmentedlist>
 
@@ -41,24 +43,46 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
 
-    <para>Don't install a static library that is not handled by configure:</para>
+    <para>First, ensure that <command>gawk</command> is found first during configuration:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i '/LIBTOOL_INSTALL/d' c++/Makefile.in</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i s/mawk// configure</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Then, run the following commands to build the <quote>tic</quote>
+    program on the build host:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">mkdir build
+cd build
+../configure
+make -C include
+make -C progs tic
+cd ..</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr           \
-            --mandir=/usr/share/man \
-            --with-shared           \
-            --without-debug         \
-            --without-normal        \
-            --enable-pc-files       \
-            --enable-widec</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr             \
+            --host=$LFS_TGT           \
+            --build=$(./config.guess) \
+            --mandir=/usr/share/man   \
+            --with-shared             \
+            --without-debug           \
+            --without-ada             \
+            --without-normal          \
+            --enable-widec            \
+            --enable-pc-files</userinput></screen>
 
     <variablelist>
       <title>The meaning of the new configure options:</title>
 
       <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>--without-ada</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This ensures that Ncurses does not build support for the Ada
+          compiler which may be present on the host but will not be available
+          once we enter the <command>chroot</command> environment.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
         <term><parameter>--enable-widec</parameter></term>
         <listitem>
           <para>This switch causes wide-character libraries (e.g., <filename
@@ -87,293 +111,46 @@
           </para>
         </listitem>
       </varlistentry>
-
+      <!--
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><parameter>- -disable-db-install</parameter></term>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>This switch disables building the terminfo database: it is not
+          needed at this stage, and if <command>tic</command> is too old,
+          it cannot compile recent databases.</para>
+        </listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+      -->
     </variablelist>
 
     <para>Compile the package:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>This package has a test suite, but it can only be run after the
-    package has been installed.  The tests reside in the
-    <filename class="directory">test/</filename> directory.  See the
-    <filename>README</filename> file in that directory for further details.
-    </para>
-
     <para>Install the package:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
+<!-- TODO: check and document -->
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make DESTDIR=$LFS TIC_PATH=$(pwd)/build/progs/tic install
+ln -s libncursesw.so $LFS/usr/lib/libncurses.so</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Move the shared libraries to the
     <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory, where they are
     expected to reside:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6* /lib</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v $LFS/usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6* $LFS/lib</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>Because the libraries have been moved, one symlink points to
     a non-existent file. Recreate it:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libncursesw.so) /usr/lib/libncursesw.so</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Many applications still expect the linker to be able to find
-    non-wide-character Ncurses libraries. Trick such applications into linking with
-    wide-character libraries by means of symlinks and linker scripts:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">for lib in ncurses form panel menu ; do
-    rm -vf                    /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
-    echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" &gt; /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so
-    ln -sfv ${lib}w.pc        /usr/lib/pkgconfig/${lib}.pc
-done</userinput></screen>
-
-    <para>Finally, make sure that old applications that look for
-    <filename class="libraryfile">-lcurses</filename> at build time are still
-    buildable:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">rm -vf                     /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
-echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" &gt; /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
-ln -sfv libncurses.so      /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="install">ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink $LFS/usr/lib/libncursesw.so) $LFS/usr/lib/libncursesw.so</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>If desired, install the Ncurses documentation:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">mkdir -v       /usr/share/doc/ncurses-&ncurses-version;
-cp -v -R doc/* /usr/share/doc/ncurses-&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen>
-
-    <note>
-
-      <para>The instructions above don't create non-wide-character Ncurses
-      libraries since no package installed by compiling from sources would link
-      against them at runtime. However, the only known binary-only
-      applications that link against non-wide-character Ncurses libraries 
-      require version 5.  If you must have such libraries because of some binary-only
-      application or to be compliant with LSB, build the package again with the
-      following commands:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>make distclean
-./configure --prefix=/usr    \
-            --with-shared    \
-            --without-normal \
-            --without-debug  \
-            --without-cxx-binding \
-            --with-abi-version=5 
-make sources libs
-cp -av lib/lib*.so.5* /usr/lib</userinput></screen>
-    </note>
 
   </sect2>
 
-  <sect2 id="contents-ncurses" role="content">
-    <title>Contents of Ncurses</title>
-
-    <segmentedlist>
-      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
-      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
-
-      <seglistitem>
-        <seg>
-           captoinfo (link to tic), 
-           clear, 
-           infocmp, 
-           infotocap (link to tic),
-           ncursesw6-config, 
-           reset (link to tset), 
-           tabs, 
-           tic, 
-           toe, 
-           tput, and 
-           tset
-        </seg>
-        <seg>
-           libcursesw.so (symlink and linker script to libncursesw.so),
-           libformw.so, 
-           libmenuw.so, 
-           libncursesw.so,
-           libncurses++w.a,
-           libpanelw.so, and their non-wide-character counterparts without "w"
-              in the library names.</seg>
-        <seg>
-           /usr/share/tabset, 
-           /usr/share/terminfo, and
-           /usr/share/doc/ncurses-&ncurses-version;
-        </seg>
-      </seglistitem>
-    </segmentedlist>
-
-    <variablelist>
-      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
-      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
-      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
-
-      <varlistentry id="captoinfo">
-        <term><command>captoinfo</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Converts a termcap description into a terminfo description</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses captoinfo">
-            <primary sortas="b-captoinfo">captoinfo</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="clear">
-        <term><command>clear</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Clears the screen, if possible</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses clear">
-            <primary sortas="b-clear">clear</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="infocmp">
-        <term><command>infocmp</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Compares or prints out terminfo descriptions</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infocmp">
-            <primary sortas="b-infocmp">infocmp</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="infotocap">
-        <term><command>infotocap</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Converts a terminfo description into a termcap description</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infotocap">
-            <primary sortas="b-infotocap">infotocap</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="ncursesw6-config">
-        <term><command>ncursesw6-config</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Provides configuration information for ncurses</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses ncursesw6-config">
-            <primary sortas="b-ncursesw6-config">ncursesw6-config</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="reset">
-        <term><command>reset</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Reinitializes a terminal to its default values</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses reset">
-            <primary sortas="b-reset">reset</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="tabs">
-        <term><command>tabs</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Clears and sets tab stops on a terminal</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tabs">
-            <primary sortas="b-tabs">tabs</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="tic">
-        <term><command>tic</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>The terminfo entry-description compiler that translates a
-          terminfo file from source format into the binary format needed for the
-          ncurses library routines [A terminfo file contains information on the
-          capabilities of a certain terminal.]</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tic">
-            <primary sortas="b-tic">tic</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="toe">
-        <term><command>toe</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Lists all available terminal types, giving the primary name and
-          description for each</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses toe">
-            <primary sortas="b-toe">toe</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="tput">
-        <term><command>tput</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Makes the values of terminal-dependent capabilities available to
-          the shell; it can also be used to reset or initialize a terminal or
-          report its long name</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tput">
-            <primary sortas="b-tput">tput</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="tset">
-        <term><command>tset</command></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Can be used to initialize terminals</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tset">
-            <primary sortas="b-tset">tset</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libcursesw">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libcursesw</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>A link to <filename>libncursesw</filename></para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libcursesw">
-            <primary sortas="c-libcursesw">libcursesw</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libncursesw">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libncursesw</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Contains functions to display text in many complex ways on a
-          terminal screen; a good example of the use of these functions is the
-          menu displayed during the kernel's <command>make
-          menuconfig</command></para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libncursesw">
-            <primary sortas="c-libncursesw">libncursesw</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libformw">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libformw</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Contains functions to implement forms</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libformw">
-            <primary sortas="c-libformw">libformw</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libmenuw">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmenuw</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Contains functions to implement menus</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libmenuw">
-            <primary sortas="c-libmenuw">libmenuw</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
-
-      <varlistentry id="libpanelw">
-        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpanelw</filename></term>
-        <listitem>
-          <para>Contains functions to implement panels</para>
-          <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libpanelw">
-            <primary sortas="c-libpanelw">libpanelw</primary>
-          </indexterm>
-        </listitem>
-      </varlistentry>
+  <sect2 role="content">
+    <title/>
 
-    </variablelist>
+    <para>Details on this package are located in
+    <xref linkend="contents-ncurses" role="."/></para>
 
   </sect2>