source: general/genlib/brotli.xml@ ca4c24b

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY brotli-download-http "https://github.com/google/brotli/archive/v&brotli-version;/brotli-&brotli-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY brotli-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY brotli-md5sum        "c2274f0c7af8470ad514637c35bcee7d">
  <!ENTITY brotli-size          "476 KB">
  <!ENTITY brotli-buildsize     "24 MB (with python3 bindings)">
  <!-- The python tests for this package are broken.  The tarball is missing a lot of test files -->
  <!ENTITY brotli-time          "0.4 SBU (with python3 bindings)">
]>

<sect1 id="brotli" xreflabel="Brotli-&brotli-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="brotli.html"?>


  <title>brotli-&brotli-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="brotli">
    <primary sortas="a-brotli">Brotli</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Brotli</title>

    <para>
      <application>Brotli</application> provides a general-purpose lossless
      compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a
      modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order
      context modeling. Its libraries are particularly used for WOFF2 fonts
      on webpages.
    </para>

    &lfs113_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&brotli-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&brotli-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &brotli-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &brotli-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &brotli-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &brotli-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Brotli Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <!-- Not "Required" because we can use
         "./bootstrap && ./configure ... && make && make install".
         Doing so can break an optional circular dependency:
         curl is recommended for cmake, and brotli is optional for curl. -->
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="cmake"/>
    </para>

<!-- Brotli doesn't have any lua bindings, at least not with 1.0.7.
         Do not advertise python2 as python3 should be used instead
    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="lua"/> (to create Lua bindings) and
      <xref linkend="python2"/> (to create python2 bindings)
    </para>
-->
    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/brotli"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>


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

    <para>
      At first, fix an issue in pkg-config files:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's@-R..libdir.@@' scripts/*.pc.in</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Install <application>brotli</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>mkdir out &amp;&amp;
cd    out &amp;&amp;

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      ..  &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>


    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make test</command>.
    </para>

<!--  These are broken
    <para>
      The python tests are missing most of the necessary testdata files and
      therefore 240 of 311 tests fail.
      If you nevertheless wish to test the bindings, go back to the top-level directory and
      issue: <command>python3 setup.py test</command>.
    </para>
-->
    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
cd ..</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If desired, build and install the <application>Python3</application>
      bindings as the &root; user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>pip3 wheel -w dist --no-build-isolation --no-deps $PWD &amp;&amp;
pip3 install --no-index --find-links dist --no-cache-dir --no-user Brotli</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          brotli
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libbrotlicommon{-static.a,.so},
          libbrotlidec{,-static.a,.so}, and
          libbrotlienc{,-static.a,.so}
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/brotli
          /usr/lib/python&python3-majorver;/site-packages/Brotli-&brotli-version;.dist-info
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="brotli-prog">
        <term><command>brotli</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            can compress or decompress files, or test the integrity of
            compressed files
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="brotli brotli-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-brotli">brotli</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libbrotlicommon">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbrotlicommon{-static.a,.so}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the Brotli common dictionary library
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="brotli libbrotlicommon">
            <primary sortas="c-libbrotlicommon">libbrotlicommon{,-static.a,.so}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libbrotlidec">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbrotlidec{-static.a,.so}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the Brotli decoder library
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="brotli libbrotlidec">
            <primary sortas="c-libbrotlidec">libbrotlidec{,-static.a,.so}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libbrotlienc">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libbrotlienc{-static.a,.so}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the Brotli common encoder library
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="brotli libbrotlienc">
            <primary sortas="c-libbrotlienc">libbrotlienc{,-static.a,.so}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>