What's with the spate of meaningless noise responses on this thread? Really, folks, you need to get a grip!
As to the substance of this thread, yeah, if you carefully read the INSTALL file (as I did this afternoon), it is all there, but it is not a particularly easy read. I get where OP is coming from, but I doubt there is anything that can be done to make this easier to understand. My experience with bash's ./configure process is that there is one thing that really matters - and that is to include --with-curses. If you omit that, things don't work. (And note that this means you have to make sure that you have the libncurses-dev (or whatever your distro calls it) package installed before running configure) Everything else can pretty much be ignored, because by default, you get everything, and there's really no good reason to want to turn any of it off. ================================================================================= Please do not send me replies to my posts on the list. I always read the replies via the web archive, so CC'ing to me is unnecessary. Note that they always end up in my Spam file anyway, so it is annoying to have to periodically clean that out.