source: general/genlib/js38.xml@ 46c7ad6

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY js38-download-http "https://people.mozilla.org/~sstangl/mozjs-&JS38-version;.rc0.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY js38-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY js38-md5sum        "cb602e21f5fc798b88163a3aa4e03e0a">
  <!ENTITY js38-size          "24 MB">
  <!ENTITY js38-buildsize     "896 MB">
  <!ENTITY js38-time          "3.3 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="js38" xreflabel="js38-&JS38-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="js38.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>JS-&JS38-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="js38">
    <primary sortas="a-js38">js38</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>
      <application>JS</application> is Mozilla's JavaScript engine
      written in C.
    </para>

    &lfs80_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&js38-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&js38-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &js38-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &js38-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &js38-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &js38-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Required patch:
          <ulink url="&patch-root;/js38-&JS38-version;-upstream_fixes-2.patch"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">JS38 Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="autoconf213"/>,
      <xref linkend="icu"/>,
      <xref linkend="libffi"/>,
      <xref linkend="nspr"/>,
      <xref linkend="python2"/>, and
      <xref linkend="zip"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="doxygen"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/js38"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

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

    <warning>
      <para>The tarball extracts to mozjs-38.0.0, rather than what is
      listed in the download section.</para>
    </warning>

    <para>
      First, apply a patch to fix the build and to prevent segmentation
      faults.
    </para>

<screen><userinput remap="pre">patch -Np1 -i ../js38-&JS38-version;-upstream_fixes-2.patch</userinput></screen>

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

<!-- Spaces are significant in <screen> sections -->
<screen><userinput>cd js/src &amp;&amp;
autoconf2.13 &amp;&amp;

./configure --prefix=/usr       \
            --with-intl-api     \
            --with-system-zlib  \
            --with-system-ffi   \
            --with-system-nspr  \
            --with-system-icu   \
            --enable-threadsafe \
            --enable-readline   &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a working test suite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <!--Optional section-->
  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>autoconf213</command>: This command regenerates the configure
      script with the changes from the patch.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--with-*</parameter>: These parameters allow the build system
      to use system versions of the above libriares. These are required for
      stability.
    </para>

    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-readline</parameter>: This switch enables Readline
      support in the JS shell.
    </para>
    
    <para>
      <parameter>--enable-threadsafe</parameter>: This switch enables support
      for multiple threads at one time. This increases performance as well as
      stability.
    </para>

  </sect2>

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries)</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          js38 and js38-config
        </seg>
        <!-- Yes, the static library is required. -->
        <seg>
          libmozjs-38.so and libjs_static.ajs
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/mozjs-38
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="js3-js38">
        <term><command>js38</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            provides a command line interface to the
            <application>JavaScript</application> engine.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="js38 js38">
            <primary sortas="b-js38">js38</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="js38-config">
        <term><command>js38-config</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to find the JS compiler and linker flags.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="js38 js38-config">
            <primary sortas="b-js38-config">js38-config</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libmozjs-38">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmozjs-38.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains the Mozilla JavaScript API functions.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="js38 libmozjs-38">
            <primary sortas="c-libmozjs38">libmozjs-38.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>
</sect1>