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gh-136687: allow manually excluding ncurses from the build
duaneg Jul 15, 2025
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Switch option to "--disable-curses", as this is better considered ski…
duaneg Jul 19, 2025
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8 changes: 8 additions & 0 deletions Doc/using/configure.rst
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Expand Up @@ -475,6 +475,14 @@ Options for third-party dependencies
C compiler and linker flags for ``libzlib``, used by :mod:`gzip` module,
overriding ``pkg-config``.

.. option:: --disable-curses

Do not build nor install the :mod:`curses` module regardless of whether the
``libncurses`` library is present on the host system (built and installed by
default if ``libncurses`` is present).

.. versionadded:: 3.15


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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions Misc/NEWS.d/next/Build/2025-07-16-11-41-43.gh-issue-136687.ob_uIp.rst
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Add :option:`--disable-curses` option to :file:`configure` to manually exclude
the :mod:`curses` module from the build.
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