[439d67f] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY npth-download-http " ">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY npth-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/npth/npth-&npth-version;.tar.bz2">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY npth-md5sum "226bac7374b9466c6ec26b1c34dab844">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY npth-size "292 KB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY npth-buildsize "2.6 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY npth-time "less than 0.1 SBU">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="npth" xreflabel="NPth-&npth-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="npth.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>NPth-&npth-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="npth">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-NPth">NPth</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to NPth</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>The <application>NPth</application> package contains a very portable
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| 33 | POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive
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| 34 | priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (multithreading)
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| 35 | inside event-driven applications. All threads run in the same address space
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| 36 | of the server application, but each thread has its own individual
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| 37 | program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. </para>
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| 38 |
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| 39 | &lfs77_checked; &gcc5_checked;
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| 40 |
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| 41 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 42 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&npth-download-http;"/></para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&npth-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &npth-md5sum;</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Download size: &npth-size;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &npth-buildsize;</para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | <listitem>
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| 59 | <para>Estimated build time: &npth-time;</para>
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| 60 | </listitem>
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| 61 | </itemizedlist>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 64 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/npth"/></para>
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| 65 | </sect2>
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| 66 |
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| 67 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 68 | <title>Installation of NPth</title>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <para>Install <application>NPth</application> by running the
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| 71 | following commands:</para>
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| 72 |
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| 73 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &&
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| 74 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 75 |
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| 76 | <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
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| 77 |
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| 78 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>
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| 79 | user:</para>
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| 80 |
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| 81 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 82 | </sect2>
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| 83 | <!--
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| 84 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 85 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 86 |
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| 87 | <para><command>sed -i 's#$(LOBJS) ...</command>: This <command>sed</command>
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| 88 | fixes a race condition in the <filename>Makefile</filename>. It allows you
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| 89 | to run <command>make</command> with multiple jobs (e.g., <command>make -j4</command>).</para>
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| 90 |
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| 91 | <para><option>-\-disable-static</option>: This option stops it compiling a
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| 92 | static version of the library.</para>
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| 93 |
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| 94 | <para><option>-\-mandir=/usr/share/man</option>: This option puts the man
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| 95 | pages in <filename class="directory">/usr/share/man</filename> and not
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| 96 | <filename class="directory">/usr/man</filename>.</para>
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| 97 | </sect2>-->
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| 98 |
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| 99 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 100 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <segmentedlist>
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| 103 | <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
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| 104 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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| 105 | <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
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| 106 |
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| 107 | <seglistitem>
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| 108 | <seg>npth-config</seg>
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| 109 | <seg>libnpth.so</seg>
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| 110 | <seg>None</seg>
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| 111 | </seglistitem>
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| 112 | </segmentedlist>
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| 113 |
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| 114 | <variablelist>
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| 115 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 116 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 117 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 118 |
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| 119 | <varlistentry id="npth-config">
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| 120 | <term><command>npth-config</command></term>
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| 121 | <listitem>
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| 122 | <para>is a utility used to configure and build applications based on
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| 123 | the npth library. It can be used to query the C compiler and
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| 124 | linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the
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| 125 | application against the npth library.</para>
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| 126 | <indexterm zone="npth npth-config">
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| 127 | <primary sortas="b-npth-config">npth-config</primary>
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| 128 | </indexterm>
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| 129 | </listitem>
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| 130 | </varlistentry>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <varlistentry id="libnpth">
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| 133 | <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnpth.so</filename></term>
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| 134 | <listitem>
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| 135 | <para>contains the API functions used by the New Portable Threads
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| 136 | Library.</para>
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| 137 | <indexterm zone="npth libnpth">
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| 138 | <primary sortas="c-libnpth">libnpth.so</primary>
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| 139 | </indexterm>
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| 140 | </listitem>
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| 141 | </varlistentry>
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| 142 | </variablelist>
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| 143 | </sect2>
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| 144 | </sect1>
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