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Last change on this file since 4e805c3 was 3887e255, checked in by Randy McMurchy <randy@…>, 14 years ago

Modified the libxml2 instructions to remove the mention of the optional testsuite as it will cause the tests to fail

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[52d29f7]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
[6732c094]2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
[52d29f7]4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
[c5854c2]7 <!ENTITY libxml2-download-http "http://xmlsoft.org/sources/libxml2-&libxml2-version;.tar.gz">
[dd58fed]8 <!ENTITY libxml2-download-ftp "ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-&libxml2-version;.tar.gz">
[4d200c6]9 <!ENTITY libxml2-md5sum "7740a8ec23878a2f50120e1faa2730f2">
[a270244]10 <!ENTITY libxml2-size "4.7 MB">
[3887e255]11 <!ENTITY libxml2-buildsize "113 MB (additional 19 MB to run the full test suite)">
12 <!ENTITY libxml2-time "1.2 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU to run the full test suite)">
[52d29f7]13]>
14
[f45b1953]15<sect1 id="libxml2" xreflabel="libxml2-&libxml2-version;">
[1515ed8a]16 <?dbhtml filename="libxml2.html"?>
[8e75f8b9]17
[1515ed8a]18 <sect1info>
19 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
20 <date>$Date$</date>
21 </sect1info>
[8e75f8b9]22
[437700ae]23 <title>libxml2-&libxml2-version;</title>
[8e75f8b9]24
[1515ed8a]25 <indexterm zone="libxml2">
26 <primary sortas="a-Libxml2">Libxml2</primary>
27 </indexterm>
28
29 <sect2 role="package">
[437700ae]30 <title>Introduction to libxml2</title>
[8e75f8b9]31
[1515ed8a]32 <para>The <application>libxml2</application> package contains
33 XML libraries. These are useful for parsing XML files.</para>
[8e75f8b9]34
[7f4cdbc0]35 &lfs65_checked;
36
[1515ed8a]37 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
38 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
39 <listitem>
40 <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&libxml2-download-http;"/></para>
41 </listitem>
42 <listitem>
43 <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&libxml2-download-ftp;"/></para>
44 </listitem>
45 <listitem>
46 <para>Download MD5 sum: &libxml2-md5sum;</para>
47 </listitem>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>Download size: &libxml2-size;</para>
50 </listitem>
51 <listitem>
52 <para>Estimated disk space required: &libxml2-buildsize;</para>
53 </listitem>
54 <listitem>
55 <para>Estimated build time: &libxml2-time;</para>
56 </listitem>
57 </itemizedlist>
[8e75f8b9]58
[3887e255]59 <!-- <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
[5da63eb]60 <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>Optional Testsuite: <ulink
[a270244]63 url="http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/xmlts20080205.tar.gz"/> - This
64 enables <command>make check</command> to do complete testing. Note
65 that this is <emphasis>not</emphasis> the latest version of the
66 testsuite, but it is the one specified by the developers.</para>
[5da63eb]67 </listitem>
[3887e255]68 </itemizedlist> -->
[5da63eb]69
[437700ae]70 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">libxml2 Dependencies</bridgehead>
[8e75f8b9]71
[03b3210]72 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
[a270244]73 <para role="optional"><xref linkend="python"/> (to build and install a
74 <application>Python</application> library module, additionally it is
75 required to run the full suite of tests)</para>
[0af6ce1]76
[1aadfdf]77 <note>
78 <para>Some packages which utilize
79 <application>libxml2</application> (such as
80 <application>GNOME Doc Utils</application>) need the
81 <application>Python</application> module installed to function
[0af6ce1]82 properly and some packages (such as GNOME Panel) will not build
83 properly if the <application>Python</application> module is not
84 available.</para>
[1aadfdf]85 </note>
86
[1039de3]87 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
88 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/libxml2"/></para>
89
[1515ed8a]90 </sect2>
[8e75f8b9]91
[1515ed8a]92 <sect2 role="installation">
[437700ae]93 <title>Installation of libxml2</title>
[1515ed8a]94
[3887e255]95 <!-- <para>If you downloaded the testsuite, issue the following command:</para>
[a270244]96
[3887e255]97<screen><userinput>tar xf ../xmlts20080205.tar.gz</userinput></screen> -->
[5da63eb]98
[74390482]99 <para>Install <application>libxml2</application> by running the following
[1515ed8a]100 commands:</para>
101
[80b21b2]102<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
[1515ed8a]103make</userinput></screen>
104
105 <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
[8e75f8b9]106
[1515ed8a]107 <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
[8e75f8b9]108
[1515ed8a]109<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
[8e75f8b9]110
[1515ed8a]111 </sect2>
[8e75f8b9]112
[1515ed8a]113 <sect2 role="commands">
114 <title>Command Explanations</title>
115
[f33cb079]116 <para><parameter>--with-history</parameter>: If this option is used, it
[a270244]117 enables <application>Readline</application> support when running
[00166c8a]118 <command>xmlcatalog</command> or <command>xmllint</command> in shell
119 mode.</para>
[f33cb079]120
121 <caution>
[6473e74]122 <para>When using history support, <command>make check</command> will
123 hang forever if either <filename>/etc/inputrc</filename> or
124 <filename>~/.inputrc</filename> has the option
[00166c8a]125 <option>show-all-if-ambiguous</option> or
126 <option>show-all-if-available</option> turned on.</para>
[f33cb079]127 </caution>
[8e75f8b9]128
[5da63eb]129 <para><parameter>--enable-shared --disable-static</parameter>: This pair
130 of switches prevents the static libraries in this package from being
131 built and installed.</para>
132
[1515ed8a]133 </sect2>
[8e75f8b9]134
[1515ed8a]135 <sect2 role="content">
136 <title>Contents</title>
137
138 <segmentedlist>
139 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
140 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
141 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
[8e75f8b9]142
[1515ed8a]143 <seglistitem>
144 <seg>xml2-config, xmlcatalog, and xmllint</seg>
[1039de3]145 <seg>libxml2.{so,a} and optionally, the libxml2mod.{so,a}
[1515ed8a]146 <application>Python</application> module</seg>
[437700ae]147 <seg>/usr/include/libxml2, /usr/share/doc/libxml2-&libxml2-version;,
148 /usr/share/doc/libxml2-python-&libxml2-version; and
149 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libxml2</seg>
[1515ed8a]150 </seglistitem>
151 </segmentedlist>
[8e75f8b9]152
[1515ed8a]153 <variablelist>
154 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
155 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
156 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
[8e75f8b9]157
[1515ed8a]158 <varlistentry id="xml2-config">
159 <term><command>xml2-config</command></term>
160 <listitem>
[74390482]161 <para>determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to
162 compile and link programs that use
[1515ed8a]163 <filename class='libraryfile'>libxml2</filename>.</para>
164 <indexterm zone="libxml2 xml2-config">
165 <primary sortas="b-xml2-config">xml2-config</primary>
166 </indexterm>
167 </listitem>
168 </varlistentry>
[8e75f8b9]169
[1515ed8a]170 <varlistentry id="xmlcatalog">
171 <term><command>xmlcatalog</command></term>
172 <listitem>
[74390482]173 <para>is used to monitor and manipulate XML
[1515ed8a]174 and SGML catalogs.</para>
175 <indexterm zone="libxml2 xmlcatalog">
176 <primary sortas="b-xmlcatalog">xmlcatalog</primary>
177 </indexterm>
178 </listitem>
179 </varlistentry>
[8e75f8b9]180
[1515ed8a]181 <varlistentry id="xmllint">
182 <term><command>xmllint</command></term>
183 <listitem>
[74390482]184 <para>parses XML files and outputs reports (based
[1515ed8a]185 upon options) to detect errors in XML coding.</para>
186 <indexterm zone="libxml2 xmllint">
187 <primary sortas="b-xmllint">xmllint</primary>
188 </indexterm>
189 </listitem>
190 </varlistentry>
[8e75f8b9]191
[1515ed8a]192 <varlistentry id="libxml2-lib">
[1039de3]193 <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libxml2.{so,a}</filename></term>
[1515ed8a]194 <listitem>
[74390482]195 <para> libraries provide the functions for programs to parse files
[1515ed8a]196 that use the XML format.</para>
197 <indexterm zone="libxml2 libxml2-lib">
[1039de3]198 <primary sortas="c-libxml2">libxml2.{so,a}</primary>
[1515ed8a]199 </indexterm>
200 </listitem>
201 </varlistentry>
[8e75f8b9]202
[1515ed8a]203 </variablelist>
204
205 </sect2>
[f45b1953]206
207</sect1>
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