Since macOS's filesystem is case-insensitive, its `tic` only generates
terminfo directory names that are hex numbers instead of letters, such
as 78/xterm instead of x/xterm. However, the configure script still
enables the mixed-case directory name feature by default. As a result,
ncurses will fail when trying to find terminfo entries like x/xterm if
they are generated on macOS.
It seems like there is no way to change the behavior of `tic` to create
alphabetical directories, so we can only disable this option explicitly.
This sets the --with-shared switch for the configure script so that
ncurses is compiled as a shared library in addition the default which is
a static library.
Without the --with-shared switch ncurses will only be compiled as a
static library.
To properly set the environment variables LOCAL_LDFLAGS and
LOCAL_LDFLAGS2, a case in the configure script had to be updated to
include '*serenity*'.
Much redundancy is removed from package scripts with this system.
It also supports simple dependency management, uninstalling (through
BSD ports style plist files), cleaning up after itself (with clean,
clean_dist, clean_all commands), etc.