The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent handling of character screens.
Approximate build time: 0.7 SBU Required disk space: 26 MB
Ncurses installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.
Prepare Ncurses for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
--without-debug --without-ada --enable-overwrite
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”.