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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 <!ENTITY % patches-entities SYSTEM "../../patches.ent">
6 %general-entities;
7 %patches-entities;
8]>
9
10<sect1 id="ch-system-zlib" role="wrap">
11 <?dbhtml filename="zlib.html"?>
12
13 <title>Zlib-&zlib-version;</title>
14
15 <indexterm zone="ch-system-zlib">
16 <primary sortas="a-Zlib">Zlib</primary>
17 </indexterm>
18
19 <sect2 role="package">
20 <title/>
21
22 <para>The Zlib package contains compression and decompression routines
23 used by some programs.</para>
24
25 <segmentedlist>
26 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
27 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
28
29 <seglistitem>
30 <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
31 <seg>Not checked yet</seg>
32 </seglistitem>
33 </segmentedlist>
34
35 <segmentedlist>
36 <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
37
38 <seglistitem>
39 <seg>Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed</seg>
40 </seglistitem>
41 </segmentedlist>
42
43 </sect2>
44
45 <sect2 role="installation">
46 <title>Installation of Zlib</title>
47
48 <note os="a">
49 <para>Zlib is known to build its shared library incorrectly if
50 <envar>CFLAGS</envar> is specified in the environment. If using a
51 specified <envar>CFLAGS</envar> variable, be sure to add the
52 <option>-fPIC</option> directive to the <envar>CFLAGS</envar>
53 variable for the duration of the configure command below, then
54 remove it afterwards.</para>
55 </note>
56
57 <para os="b">Prepare Zlib for compilation:</para>
58
59<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --shared --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
60
61 <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
62
63<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
64
65 <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
66 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
67
68 <para os="f">Install the shared library:</para>
69
70<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
71
72 <para os="h">The previous command installed a <filename
73 class="extension">.so</filename> file in <filename
74 class="directory">/lib</filename>. We will remove it and relink it into
75 <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>:</para>
76
77<screen os="i"><userinput>rm /lib/libz.so
78ln -sf ../../lib/libz.so.&zlib-version; /usr/lib/libz.so</userinput></screen>
79
80 <para os="j">Build the static library:</para>
81
82<screen><userinput>make clean
83./configure --prefix=/usr
84make</userinput></screen>
85
86 <para os="k">To test the results again, issue:
87 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
88
89 <para os="l">Install the static library:</para>
90
91<screen os="m"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
92
93 <para os="n">Fix the permissions on the static library:</para>
94
95<screen os="o"><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libz.a</userinput></screen>
96
97 </sect2>
98
99 <sect2 id="contents-zlib" role="content">
100 <title>Contents of Zlib</title>
101
102 <segmentedlist>
103 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
104
105 <seglistitem>
106 <seg>libz.[a,so]</seg>
107 </seglistitem>
108 </segmentedlist>
109
110 <variablelist>
111 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
112 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
113 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
114
115 <varlistentry id="libz">
116 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libz</filename></term>
117 <listitem>
118 <para>Contains compression and decompression
119 functions used by some programs</para>
120 <indexterm zone="ch-system-zlib libz">
121 <primary sortas="c-libz">libz</primary>
122 </indexterm>
123 </listitem>
124 </varlistentry>
125
126 </variablelist>
127
128 </sect2>
129
130</sect1>
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