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@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@
<title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
+<indexterm zone="ch-tools-ncurses">
+<primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary>
+<secondary>tools</secondary></indexterm>
+
<sect2 role="package"><title/>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/ncurses.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/para[1])"/>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
@@ -15,6 +20,8 @@
<seglistitem><seg>0.7 SBU</seg><seg>26 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
+<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../chapter06/ncurses.xml" xpointer="xpointer(/sect1/sect2[1]/segmentedlist[2])"/>
+
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
@@ -25,14 +32,43 @@
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
--without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite</userinput></screen>
+<para>The meaning of the configure options:</para>
+
+<variablelist>
+<varlistentry>
+<term><parameter>--without-ada</parameter></term>
+<listitem><para>This tells Ncurses not to build its Ada bindings, even
+if an Ada compiler is installed on the host. This needs to be done
+because once we enter the chroot environment, Ada will no longer be
+available.</para></listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
+<varlistentry>
+<term><parameter>--enable-overwrite</parameter></term>
+<listitem><para>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>
+</varlistentry>
+</variablelist>
+
<para>Compile the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
+<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+
<para>Install the package:</para>
<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
</sect2>
+<sect2 role="content"><title/>
+<para>Details on this package are located in <xref
+linkend="contents-ncurses" role="."/></para>
+</sect2>
+
</sect1>
+