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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
]>

<sect1 id="ch-tools-ncurses" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>ncurses</productname>
    <productnumber>&ncurses-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&ncurses-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>

  <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>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&ncurses-ch5-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&ncurses-ch5-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>

    <para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
    --without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the 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-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>