source: general/genlib/lzo.xml@ ac38e9dc

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY lzo-download-http "http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/download/lzo-&lzo-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY lzo-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY lzo-md5sum        "c7ffc9a103afe2d1bba0b015e7aa887f">
  <!ENTITY lzo-size          "584 KB">
  <!ENTITY lzo-buildsize     "8.4 MB">
  <!ENTITY lzo-time          "0.2 SBU (additional 0.2 SBU to run the tests)">
]>

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

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

  <title>LZO-&lzo-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="lzo">
    <primary sortas="a-LZO">LZO</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>
      <application>LZO</application> is a data compression
      library which is suitable for data decompression and compression in
      real-time. This means it favors speed over compression ratio.
    </para>

    &lfs77_checked;

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

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

  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr                    \
            --enable-shared                  \
            --disable-static                 \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/lzo-&lzo-version; &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

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

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

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

    <para>
      The shared library needs to be moved to
      <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>, and as a result the
      <filename class="extension">.so</filename> file in
      <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> will need to be
      recreated. Run the following command as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/liblzo2.so.* /lib
ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/liblzo2.so) /usr/lib/liblzo2.so</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 Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          liblzo2.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/lzo and
          /usr/share/doc/lzo
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="liblzo2">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>liblzo2.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a data compression and decompression library.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="lzo liblzo2">
            <primary sortas="c-liblzo2">liblzo2.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>