lfs/chapter06/ncurses-exp.xml

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<title>Command explanations</title>

<para><userinput>patch -Np1 -F10 -i ../ncurses-&ncurses-version;-&ncurses-patch-version;.patch:</userinput> 
Regular updates to the ncurses package are provided as patch files so this is 
to make the source tree up to date.</para>

<para><userinput>--with-shared:</userinput> This enables the build of the
shared ncurses library files.</para>

<para><userinput>--disable-termcap:</userinput> Disabled the compilation of
termcap fall back support.</para>

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