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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  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-system-zlib" role="wrap">
9  <?dbhtml filename="zlib.html"?>
10
11  <title>Zlib-&zlib-version;</title>
12
13  <indexterm zone="ch-system-zlib">
14    <primary sortas="a-Zlib">Zlib</primary>
15  </indexterm>
16
17  <sect2 role="package">
18    <title/>
19
20    <para>The Zlib package contains compression and decompression routines
21    used by some programs.</para>
22
23    <segmentedlist>
24      <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
25
26      <seglistitem>
27        <seg>Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed</seg>
28      </seglistitem>
29    </segmentedlist>
30
31  </sect2>
32
33  <sect2 role="installation">
34    <title>Installation of Zlib</title>
35
36    <note os="a">
37      <para>Zlib is known to build its shared library incorrectly if
38      <envar>CFLAGS</envar> is specified in the environment. If using a
39      specified <envar>CFLAGS</envar> variable, be sure to add the
40      <option>-fPIC</option> directive to the <envar>CFLAGS</envar>
41      variable for the duration of the configure command below, then
42      remove it afterwards.</para>
43    </note>
44
45    <para os="b">Prepare Zlib for compilation:</para>
46
47<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --shared --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
48
49    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>
50
51<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
52
53    <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
54    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
55
56    <para os="f">Install the shared library:</para>
57
58<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
59
60    <para os="h">The previous command installed a <filename
61    class="extension">.so</filename> file in <filename
62    class="directory">/lib</filename>. We will remove it and relink it into
63    <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename>:</para>
64
65<screen os="i"><userinput>rm /lib/libz.so
66ln -sf ../../lib/libz.so.&zlib-version; /usr/lib/libz.so</userinput></screen>
67
68    <para os="j">Build the static library:</para>
69
70<screen><userinput>make clean
71./configure --prefix=/usr
72make</userinput></screen>
73
74    <para os="k">To test the results again, issue:
75    <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
76
77    <para os="l">Install the static library:</para>
78
79<screen os="m"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
80
81    <para os="n">Fix the permissions on the static library:</para>
82
83<screen os="o"><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libz.a</userinput></screen>
84
85  </sect2>
86
87  <sect2 id="contents-zlib" role="content">
88    <title>Contents of Zlib</title>
89
90    <segmentedlist>
91      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
92
93      <seglistitem>
94        <seg>libz.[a,so]</seg>
95      </seglistitem>
96    </segmentedlist>
97
98    <variablelist>
99      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
100      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
101      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
102
103      <varlistentry id="libz">
104        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libz</filename></term>
105        <listitem>
106          <para>Contains compression and decompression
107          functions used by some programs</para>
108          <indexterm zone="ch-system-zlib libz">
109            <primary sortas="c-libz">libz</primary>
110          </indexterm>
111        </listitem>
112      </varlistentry>
113
114    </variablelist>
115
116  </sect2>
117
118</sect1>
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