source: general/graphlib/giflib.xml@ 75129f2

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

  <!ENTITY giflib-download-http "https://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib/files/giflib-&giflib-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY giflib-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY giflib-http-md5sum   "6f03aee4ebe54ac2cc1ab3e4b0a049e5">
  <!ENTITY giflib-http-size     "436 KB">
  <!ENTITY giflib-buildsize     "3.2 MB (with documentation)">
  <!ENTITY giflib-time          "less than 0.1 SBU (with documentation)">
]>

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


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

  <indexterm zone="giflib">
    <primary sortas="a-giflib">giflib</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>
      The <application>giflib</application> package contains libraries
      for reading and writing GIFs as well as programs for converting and
      working with GIF files.
    </para>

    &lfs113_checked;

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">giflib Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="xmlto"/>
    </para>

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

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

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

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

<!--    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check-TESTS</command>. Test
      suite results are kept in <filename>test.sh.log</filename>.
    </para>
    There doesn't seem to be a test suite in 5.1.6 -->

    <para>
      This package does not come with a test suite.
    </para>

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

<screen role="root"><userinput>make PREFIX=/usr install &amp;&amp;

rm -fv /usr/lib/libgif.a &amp;&amp;

find doc \( -name Makefile\* -o -name \*.1 \
         -o -name \*.xml \) -exec rm -v {} \; &amp;&amp;

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/giflib-&giflib-version; &amp;&amp;
cp -v -R doc/* /usr/share/doc/giflib-&giflib-version;</userinput></screen>
<!--
    <para>
      If <xref linkend="xmlto"/> is installed, then the API documentation has
      been built.  If you wish to install the distributed and the just built
      documentations, issue, as the <systemitem
      class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>
-->
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <command>rm -fv /usr/lib/libgif.a</command>: This command removes a
      static library which is not used by any BLFS package.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>find doc ... -exec rm -v {} \;</command>: This command removes
      <filename>Makefiles</filename>, man and xml files from the documentation
      directory that would otherwise be installed by the commands that follow.
    </para>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gif2rgb, gifbuild, gifclrmp, giffix, giftext, and giftool</seg>
        <seg>libgif.so</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/doc/giflib-&giflib-version;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="gif2rgb">
        <term><command>gif2rgb</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            converts images saved as GIF to 24-bit RGB images
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="giflib gif2rgb">
            <primary sortas="b-gif2rgb">gif2rgb</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gifbuild">
        <term><command>gifbuild</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            dumps GIF data in a textual format, or undumps it to a GIF
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="giflib gifbuild">
            <primary sortas="b-gifbuild">gifbuild</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gifclrmp">
        <term><command>gifclrmp</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            modifies GIF image colormaps
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="giflib gifclrmp">
            <primary sortas="b-gifclrmp">gifclrmp</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="giffix">
        <term><command>giffix</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            clumsily attempts to fix truncated GIF images
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="giflib giffix">
            <primary sortas="b-giffix">giffix</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="giftext">
        <term><command>giftext</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            prints (text only) general information about a GIF file
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="giflib giftext">
            <primary sortas="b-giftext">giftext</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="giftool">
        <term><command>giftool</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a GIF transformation tool
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="giflib giftool">
            <primary sortas="b-giftool">giftool</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgif">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgif.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains API functions required by the
            <application>giflib</application> programs and any other programs
            needing library functionality to read, write and manipulate GIF
            images
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="giflib libgif">
            <primary sortas="c-libgif">libgif.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>