source: BOOK/final-system/common/attr.xml@ 88869f9f

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<sect1 id="ch-system-attr" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="attr.html"?>

  <title>Attr-&attr-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr">
    <primary sortas="a-Attr">Attr</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>Attr is a library for getting and setting POSIX.1e
    (formerly POSIX 6) draft 15 capabilities.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Attr</title>

    <para os="a">Apply a sed to install the documentation with a versioned
    directory:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>sed -i -e 's|/@pkg_name@|&amp;-@pkg_version@|' include/builddefs.in</userinput></screen>

    <para os="c">Prepare Attr for compilation:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para os="e">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="f"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para os="g">The tests need to run with a filesystem which supports extended
    attributes. Test the results:</para>

<screen os="h"><userinput remap="test">make -j1 tests root-tests</userinput></screen>

    <para os="i">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="j"><userinput>make install install-dev install-lib</userinput></screen>

    <para os="k">Move the shared library to <filename class="directory">/lib
    </filename> and recreate the symlink in <filename class="directory">/usr/lib
    </filename>:</para>

<screen os="l"><userinput>mv -v /usr/lib/libattr.so.* /lib
ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libattr.so) /usr/lib/libattr.so</userinput></screen>

    <para os="m">Set the proper permissions on the shared library:</para>

<screen os="n"><userinput>chmod 755 -v /lib/libattr.so.1.1.0</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-attr" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Attr</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>attr, getfattr, setfattr</seg>
        <seg>libattr.[a,so]</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/attr, /usr/share/doc/attr-&attr-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="attr">
        <term><command>attr</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Manage extended attributes on filesystem objects</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr attr">
            <primary sortas="b-attr">attr</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="getfattr">
        <term><command>getfattr</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Get extended attributes of filesystem objects</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr getfattr">
            <primary sortas="b-getfattr">getfattr</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="setfattr">
        <term><command>setfattr</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Set extended attributes of filesystem objects</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr setfattr">
            <primary sortas="b-setfattr">setfattr</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libattr">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libattr</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Library to manage extended attributes on filesystem objects</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr libattr">
            <primary sortas="c-libattr">libattr</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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