source: final-system/common/zlib.xml@ 75e10d2

Last change on this file since 75e10d2 was e6423a01, checked in by Jim Gifford <clfs@…>, 19 years ago

r781@server (orig r779): jim | 2005-11-30 22:14:06 -0800

r836@server: jim | 2005-11-30 22:13:02 -0800
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[bf8c11f]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
[e6423a01]47<screen os="c"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --shared --libdir=/lib</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]48
[e6423a01]49 <para os="d">Compile the package:</para>
[bf8c11f]50
[e6423a01]51<screen os="e"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]52
[e6423a01]53 <para os="f">To test the results, issue:
[bf8c11f]54 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
55
[e6423a01]56 <para os="g">Install the shared library:</para>
[bf8c11f]57
[e6423a01]58<screen os="h"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]59
[e6423a01]60 <para os="i">The previous command installed a <filename
[bf8c11f]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
[e6423a01]65<screen os="j"><userinput>rm /lib/libz.so
[bf8c11f]66ln -sf ../../lib/libz.so.&zlib-version; /usr/lib/libz.so</userinput></screen>
67
[e6423a01]68 <para os="k">Build the static library:</para>
[bf8c11f]69
[e6423a01]70<screen os="l"><userinput>make clean
[bf8c11f]71./configure --prefix=/usr
72make</userinput></screen>
73
[e6423a01]74 <para os="m">To test the results again, issue:
[bf8c11f]75 <userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>
76
[e6423a01]77 <para os="n">Install the static library:</para>
[bf8c11f]78
[e6423a01]79<screen os="o"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]80
[e6423a01]81 <para os="p">Fix the permissions on the static library:</para>
[bf8c11f]82
[e6423a01]83<screen os="q"><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libz.a</userinput></screen>
[bf8c11f]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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