Allow some tunables for ncurses

- Allow user to specify configure arguments to pass through to host/target
ncurses.
- Checkbox for --disable-database
- String option for --with-fallbacks

Signed-off-by: Alexey Neyman <stilor@att.net>

1 files changed, 49 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/config/companion_libs/ncurses.in b/config/companion_libs/ncurses.in
index 2e98d8e..68ecbb7 100644
--- a/config/companion_libs/ncurses.in
+++ b/config/companion_libs/ncurses.in
@@ -18,15 +18,58 @@ config NCURSES_VERSION
 # CT_INSERT_VERSION_STRING_BELOW
     default "6.0" if NCURSES_V_6_0
 
-if NCURSES
-
 config NCURSES_NEW_ABI
-    bool
-    prompt "ncurses 6.0 ABI support"
+    bool "ncurses 6.0 ABI support"
     depends on EXPERIMENTAL
-    depends on NCURSES
     help
       This option allows you to use the new ncurses-6 ABI.
       It's wise to leave this disabled and stick with the ncurses-5 ABI!
 
-endif # NCURSES
+config NCURSES_HOST_CONFIG_ARGS
+    string "Extra configure arguments for host ncurses"
+    help
+      Extra arguments that are passed verbatim to the configure when
+      building host ncurses.
+
+config NCURSES_HOST_DISABLE_DB
+    bool "Disable terminfo DB on the host"
+    default y
+    help
+      The terminfo database is not currently not installed on the host
+      as a part of the toolchain built by crosstool-ng.  This means the
+      library will not be able to use the terminals, unless that database
+      comes preinstalled.
+
+      Selecting this option allows one to embed some popular terminal
+      definitions into the library itself.
+
+      If not select, the path to the terminfo database on the host will
+      likely need to be passed as an argument to configure.
+
+config NCURSES_HOST_FALLBACKS
+    string "List of fallback terminals for the host"
+    default "linux,xterm,xterm-color,xterm-256color,vt100"
+    help
+      List of terminal descriptions that will be compiled into the curses
+      library for the host.
+
+config NCURSES_TARGET_CONFIG_ARGS
+    string "Extra configure arguments for target ncurses"
+    help
+      Extra arguments that are passed verbatim to the configure when
+      building target ncurses.
+
+config NCURSES_TARGET_DISABLE_DB
+    bool "Disable terminfo DB on the target"
+    default n
+    help
+      The terminfo database is installed with the terminfo database for the
+      target. If you want to configure ncurses with preselected terminals,
+      select Y here.
+
+config NCURSES_TARGET_FALLBACKS
+    string "List of fallback terminals for the target"
+    help
+      List of terminal descriptions that will be compiled into the curses
+      library for the target.
+