source: general/genlib/libunistring.xml@ 169031f

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  <!ENTITY libunistring-download-http "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-&libunistring-version;.tar.gz">
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  <!ENTITY libunistring-md5sum        "c24a6a3838d9ad4a41a62549312c4226">
  <!ENTITY libunistring-size          "2.9 MB">
  <!ENTITY libunistring-buildsize     "53 MB">
  <!ENTITY libunistring-time          "1 SBU">
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<sect1 id="libunistring" xreflabel="libunistring-&libunistring-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="libunistring.html"?>

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

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

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

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

    <para>libunistring is a library that provides functions for manipulating
    Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode
    standard.</para>

    &lfs76_checked;

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

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional"><xref linkend="texlive"/> (to rebuild the documentation)</para>

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

  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-static \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libunistring-&libunistring-version &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</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

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

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>libunistring.so</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/libunistring-&libunistring-version; and /usr/share/libunistring</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="libunistring-lib">
        <term><command>libunistring.so</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>provides the unicode string library API.</para>
          <indexterm zone="libunistring libunistring-lib">
            <primary sortas="c-libunistring-lib">libunistring.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>