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Chapter 14. Beyond Introduction

14.6. Ncurses-5.9

The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent handling of character screens..

14.6.1. Installation of Ncurses

Prepare Ncurses for compilation: 




./configure  --with-shared \
    --without-debug --without-ada

The meaning of the configure options:

--without-ada.

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 chroot environment.

Continue with compiling the package: 

make

Install the package: 

make install

Reset standard environment:

14.6.2. Contents of Ncurses

Installed programs: captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic), ncursesw5-config, reset (link to tset), tabs, tic, toe, tput, and tset
Installed libraries: libcursesw.{a,so} (symlink and linker script to libncursesw.{a,so}), libformw.{a,so}, libmenuw.{a,so}, libncurses++w.a, libncursesw.{a,so}, libpanelw.{a,so} and their non-wide-character counterparts without "w" in the library names.