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+kind: manual
+depends:
+- gnu-toolchain.bst
+sources:
+- kind: git
+  url: upstream:ncurses
+  track: ncurses-5.9-20150131
+  ref: f6d73a10a980bc78969c3af93665cbe7d06c3646
+config:
+  configure-commands:
+  - LDCONFIG=true ./configure --with-shared --without-debug --enable-widec
+  build-commands:
+  - make
+  install-commands:
+  - make  DESTDIR="%{install-root}" install
+  - |
+    # lfs recommends some alterations for software that looks for
+    # libcurses instead of libncurses
+    # it's more convenient to have this in a separate file than the
+    # morph as less strings have to be escaped and comments are possible
+
+    # some software expects to find libcurses in /lib
+    mkdir -p "%{install-root}/lib"
+    mv "%{install-root}"/"%{prefix}"/lib/libncursesw.so.5* "%{install-root}"/lib
+    ln -sf ../../lib/libncursesw.so.5 "%{install-root}"/"%{prefix}"/lib/libncursesw.so
+
+    # some linker tricks for libraries that look for non-wide character
+    # versions of ncurses
+    for lib in ncurses form panel menu; do
+        # remove non-wide shared object
+        rm -f "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/lib/lib${lib}.so"
+        # use a linker script to find the wide character variant
+        echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" >"%{install-root}/%{prefix}/lib/lib${lib}.so"
+        # symlink the non-shared library
+        ln -sf "lib${lib}w.a" "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/lib/lib${lib}.a"
+    done
+    ln -sf libncurses++w.a "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/lib/libncurses++.a"
+
+    # redirect software that looks for libcurses
+    rm -f "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/lib/libcursesw.so"
+    echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" >"%{install-root}/%{prefix}/lib/libcursesw.so"
+    ln -sf libncurses.so "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/lib/libcurses.so"
+    ln -sf libncursesw.a "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/lib/libcursesw.a"
+    ln -sf libncurses.a "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/lib/libcurses.a"
+
+    # install documentation
+    mkdir -p "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/share/doc/ncurses"
+    cp -R doc/* "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/share/doc/ncurses"
+
+    # remove 'clear' and 'reset' executables, busybox provides them
+    rm -f "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/bin/clear" "%{install-root}/%{prefix}/bin/reset"