source: general/genlib/libtasn1.xml@ a41f643

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  <!ENTITY libtasn1-download-http "http://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-&libtasn1-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-&libtasn1-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-md5sum        "e60b863697713c3d6a59b1e8c6f9b0d1">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-size          "1.6 MB">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-buildsize     "11 MB">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-time          "0.1 SBU">
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<sect1 id="libtasn1" xreflabel="libtasn1-&libtasn1-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="libtasn1.html"?>

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

  <title>libtasn1-&libtasn1-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="libtasn1">
    <primary sortas="a-libtasn1">libtasn1</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to libtasn1</title>

    <para><application>libtasn1</application> is a highly portable C library that
     encodes and decodes DER/BER data following an ASN.1 schema.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&libtasn1-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&libtasn1-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &libtasn1-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &libtasn1-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &libtasn1-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &libtasn1-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">libtasn1 Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and
    <ulink url="http://valgrind.org/">Valgrind</ulink> (used during the test suite)</para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/libtasn1"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of libtasn1</title>

    <para>Install <application>libtasn1</application> by running the
    following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

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

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libtasn1-&libtasn1-version; &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644    doc/libtasn1.{html,pdf,ps} \
                    /usr/share/doc/libtasn1-&libtasn1-version;</userinput></screen>

    <para>If you did not pass the <option>--enable-gtk-doc</option> parameter
    to the <command>configure</command> script, install the API documentation
    using the following command as the
    <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C doc/reference install-data-local</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>asn1Coding, asn1Decoding, and asn1Parser</seg>
        <seg>libtasn1.{so,a}</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/libtasn1-&libtasn1-version; and
        /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libtasn1</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="asn1Coding">
        <term><command>asn1Coding</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an ASN.1 DER encoder.</para>
          <indexterm zone="libtasn1 asn1Coding">
            <primary sortas="b-asn1Coding">asn1Coding</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="asn1Decoding">
        <term><command>asn1Decoding</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an ASN.1 DER decoder.</para>
          <indexterm zone="libtasn1 asn1Decoding">
            <primary sortas="b-asn1Decoding">asn1Decoding</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="asn1Parser">
        <term><command>asn1Parser</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is an ASN.1 syntax tree generator for
          <application>libtasn1</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="libtasn1 asn1Parser">
            <primary sortas="b-asn1Parser">asn1Parser</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libtasn1-lib">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libtasn1.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a library for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and
           Distinguish Encoding Rules (DER) manipulation.</para>
          <indexterm zone="libtasn1 libtasn1-lib">
            <primary sortas="c-libtasn1">libtasn1.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>