source: general/genlib/popt.xml@ b3da5f2c

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

  <!ENTITY popt-download-http "http://rpm.net.in/mirror/rpm-4.4.x/popt-&popt-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY popt-download-ftp "ftp://wraptastic.org/pub/rpm-4.4.x/popt-&popt-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY popt-md5sum "63b943522a6788ae8f756ca123d83c00">
  <!ENTITY popt-size "625 KB">
  <!ENTITY popt-buildsize "6.5 MB">
  <!ENTITY popt-time "0.29 SBU">
]>

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

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
    <keywordset>
      <keyword role="package">popt_&popt-version;.orig.tar</keyword>
      <keyword role="ftpdir">popt</keyword>
    </keywordset>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Popt-&popt-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="popt">
    <primary sortas="a-Popt">Popt</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>The <application>popt</application> package contains the
    <application>popt</application> libraries which are used by
    some programs to parse command-line options.</para>

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

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

  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>autoreconf -f -i &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue:</para>

<screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>

    <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>

    <para><command>autoreconf -f -i</command>:
    In this version, the maintainers did not generate the
    autotooled files. This command regenerates these files so
    that <filename>configure</filename> and <filename>Makefile.in</filename>
    are created.</para>

  </sect2>

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>None</seg>
        <seg>libpopt.{so,a}</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="libpopt">
      <term><filename role='library'>libpopt.{so,a}</filename></term>
      <listitem>
        <para> is used to parse command-line options.</para>
        <indexterm zone="popt libpopt">
          <primary sortas="c-libpopt">libpopt.{so,a}</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>