source: general/genlib/libunistring.xml@ bf565e06

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

  <!ENTITY libunistring-download-http "&gnu-http;/libunistring/libunistring-&libunistring-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY libunistring-download-ftp  "&gnu-ftp;/libunistring/libunistring-&libunistring-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY libunistring-md5sum        "0dfba19989ae06b8e7a49a7cd18472a1">
  <!ENTITY libunistring-size          "2.3 MB">
  <!ENTITY libunistring-buildsize     "51 MB (add 56 MB for tests)">
  <!ENTITY libunistring-time          "0.4 SBU (Using parallelism=4; add 1.0 SBU for tests)">
]>

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


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

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

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

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

    &lfs112_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"/> (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>)
      (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/include/unistring and
          /usr/share/doc/libunistring-&libunistring-version;
        </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>