Details on this package are located in Section 6.21.2, “Contents of Ncurses.”
The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent handling of character screens.
Prepare Ncurses for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \ --without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite
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.
--enable-overwrite
This tells Ncurses to install its header files into
/tools/include
, instead of
/tools/include/ncurses
, to
ensure that other packages can find the Ncurses headers
successfully.
Compile the package:
make
This package has a test suite, but it can only be run after the
package has been installed. The tests reside in the test/
directory. See the README
file in that directory for further
details.
Install the package:
make install
Details on this package are located in Section 6.21.2, “Contents of Ncurses.”