Estimated build time: 0.7 SBU Estimated required disk space: 22 MB |
(Last checked against version 5.2.)
The Ncurses package provides character and terminal handling libraries, including panels and menus.
Ncurses installs the following:
captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic), reset (link to tset), tack, tic, toe, tput and tset.
libcurses.[a,so] (link to libncurses.[a,so]), libform.[a,so], libform_g.a, libmenu.[a,so], libmenu_g.a, libncurses++.a, libncurses.[a,so], libncurses_g.a, libpanel.[a,so] and libpanel_g.a
(Last checked against version 5.2.)
Bash: sh
Binutils: ar, as, ld, ranlib
Coreutils: basename, cat, chmod, cp, date, echo, expr, hostname, install,
ln, mkdir, mv, rm, sort, tr, uname, wc
Diffutils: cmp
Gawk: gawk
GCC: c++, cc1, cc1plus, collect2, cpp0, gcc
Glibc: ldconfig
Grep: egrep, fgrep, grep
Make: make
Sed: sed
First fix two tiny bugs:
patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-5.3-etip-2.patch patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-5.3-vsscanf.patch |
The first patch corrects the etip.h header file, and the second patch prevents some compiler warnings on the use of deprecated headers.
Now prepare Ncurses for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared \
--without-debug |
Compile the package:
make |
Install the package:
make install |
Give the Ncurses libraries execute permissions:
chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.5.3 |
And fix a library that shouldn't be executable:
chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a |
Move the libraries to the /lib directory, where they're expected to reside:
mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib |
Since the libraries have been moved to /lib, a few symlinks are currently pointing towards non-existing files. Recreate those symlinks:
ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so ln -sf libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so |