Approximate build time: 0.7 SBU Required disk space: 26 MB |
Official download location for Ncurses (5.3):
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/
And for the Ncurses Etip Patch:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/cvs/ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch
For its installation Ncurses depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.
Fix a minor problem related to the etip.h header file:
patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch |
Now prepare Ncurses for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
--without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite
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The meaning of the configure options:
--without-ada: This tells Ncurses not to build its Ada bindings, even if an Ada compiler is installed on the host. This must be done because once we enter the chroot environment, Ada will no longer be available.
--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 programs and libraries:
make |
Then install them and their documentation:
make install |
The details on this package are found in the Section called Contents of Ncurses in Chapter 6.