Details on this package are located in Section 10.22.2, “Contents of Ncurses.”
The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent handling of character screens.
When Ncurses is compiled, it executes tic to create a terminfo database
in ${prefix}/share/terminfo. If
possible, the Makefile will use the
tic binary that was
just compiled in its source tree, but this does not work when
Ncurses is cross-compiled. To allow the Ncurses build in Constructing
a Temporary System to succeed, we will build and install a
tic program that can
be run on the host system.
The following patch fixes an issue with some Bash versions:
patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-5.9-bash_fix-1.patch
Prepare Ncurses for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/cross-tools \
--without-debug --without-shared
The meaning of the new configure options:
--without-debug
Tells Ncurses to build without debugging information.
--without-shared
This prevents Ncurses from building its shared libraries, which are not needed at this time.
Only one binary is needed for the Cross-Tools. Build the headers and then build tic:
make -C include make -C progs tic
Install tic with the following command:
install -v -m755 progs/tic /cross-tools/bin
Details on this package are located in Section 10.22.2, “Contents of Ncurses.”