source: general/genlib/libaio.xml@ 743a43b

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  <!ENTITY libaio-time          "less than 0.1 SBU">
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<sect1 id="libaio" xreflabel="libaio-&libaio-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="libaio.html"?>

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

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

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

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

    <para>
      The <application>libaio</application> package is an asynchronous I/O
      facility ("async I/O", or "aio") that has a richer API and capability set
      than the simple POSIX async I/O facility.  This library, libaio, provides
      the Linux-native API for async I/O.  The POSIX async I/O facility
      requires this library in order to provide kernel-accelerated async I/O
      capabilities, as do applications which require the Linux-native async I/O
      API.
    </para>

    &lfs84_checked;

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

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

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

    <para>First, disable the installation of the static library:</para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i '/install.*libaio.a/s/^/#/' src/Makefile</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      Build <application>libaio</application> by running the following
      command:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

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

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

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

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libaio.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="libaio-lib">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libaio.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the libaio library. 
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libaio libaio-lib">
            <primary sortas="c-libaio">libaio.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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