source: general/genlib/npth.xml@ d4e8cd93

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY npth-download-http "&gnupg-http;/npth/npth-&npth-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY npth-download-ftp  "&gnupg-ftp;/npth/npth-&npth-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY npth-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY npth-md5sum        "375d1a15ad969f32d25f1a7630929854">
  <!ENTITY npth-size          "296 KB">
  <!ENTITY npth-buildsize     "2.6 MB (with checks)">
  <!ENTITY npth-time          "less than 0.1 SBU (with checks)">
]>

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

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

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

  <indexterm zone="npth">
    <primary sortas="a-NPth">NPth</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>The <application>NPth</application> package contains a very portable
    POSIX/ANSI-C based library for Unix platforms which provides non-preemptive
    priority-based scheduling for multiple threads of execution (multithreading)
    inside event-driven applications. All threads run in the same address space
    of the server application, but each thread has its own individual
    program-counter, run-time stack, signal mask and errno variable. </para>

    &lfs84_checked;

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

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/npth"/></para>
  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr &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>
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  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>sed -i 's#$(LOBJS) ...</command>: This <command>sed</command>
    fixes a race condition in the <filename>Makefile</filename>. It allows you
    to run <command>make</command> with multiple jobs (e.g., <command>make -j4</command>).</para>

    <para><option>-\-disable-static</option>: This option stops it compiling a
    static version of the library.</para>

    <para><option>-\-mandir=/usr/share/man</option>: This option puts the man
    pages in <filename class="directory">/usr/share/man</filename> and not
    <filename class="directory">/usr/man</filename>.</para>
  </sect2>-->

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>npth-config</seg>
        <seg>libnpth.so</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="npth-config">
        <term><command>npth-config</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a utility used to configure and build applications based on
          the npth library. It can be used to query the C compiler and
          linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the
          application against the npth library.</para>
          <indexterm zone="npth npth-config">
            <primary sortas="b-npth-config">npth-config</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libnpth">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libnpth.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains the API functions used by the New Portable Threads
          Library.</para>
          <indexterm zone="npth libnpth">
            <primary sortas="c-libnpth">libnpth.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>
  </sect2>
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