%general-entities; ]> Attr Apply a sed which prevents man-pages which were installed by the package: sed -i -e "/SUBDIRS/s|man[25]||g" man/Makefile Apply a sed to install the documentation with a versioned directory: sed -i -e 's|/@pkg_name@|&-@pkg_version@|' include/builddefs.in Prepare Attr for compilation: ./configure \ --prefix=/usr Compile the package: make The tests need to run with a filesystem which supports extended attributes. Test the results: make -j1 tests root-tests Install the package: make install install-dev install-lib Move the shared library to /lib and recreate the symlink in /usr/lib : mv -v /usr/lib/libattr.so.* /lib ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libattr.so) /usr/lib/libattr.so Set the proper permissions on the shared library: chmod 755 -v /lib/libattr.so.1.1.0 Installed programs Installed libraries Installed directories attr, getfattr, setfattr libattr.[a,so] /usr/include/attr, /usr/share/doc/attr-&attr-version; Short Descriptions attr Manage extended attributes on filesystem objects attr getfattr Get extended attributes of filesystem objects getfattr setfattr Set extended attributes of filesystem objects setfattr libattr Library to manage extended attributes on filesystem objects libattr