lfs/chapter06/ncurses-inst.xml
Gerard Beekmans e4f5f0466a Applied Zack's ncurses patch
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<title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-&ncurses-version;-etip-2.patch</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Prepare Ncurses to be compiled:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared \
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--without-debug</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Install the package:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Give the ncurses libraries executable permission:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen></para>
<para>And fix up a library that shouldn't be executable at all:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Move the libraries to the <filename>/lib</filename> directory,
where they're expected to reside:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Since the libraries have been moved to
<filename>/lib</filename>, a few symlinks are currently pointing
towards non-existing files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
<para><screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
ln -s libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a
ln -s libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen></para>
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