6.5. Ncurses-5.5

The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent handling of character screens.

6.5.1. Installation of Ncurses

Prepare Ncurses for compilation:

./configure --prefix=/tools --with-shared \
    --host=${LFS_TARGET} --without-debug --without-ada \
    --enable-overwrite --with-build-cc=gcc

The meaning of the configure options:

--with-shared: This tells Ncurses to create a shared library.
--without-debug: This tells Ncurses not to build with debug information.
--without-ada: This ensures that Ncurses does not build support for the Ada compiler which may be present on the host but will not be available when building the final system.
--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.
--with-build-cc=gcc: This tells Ncurses what type of compiler we are using.

Compile the package:

make

Install the package:

make install