source: gnome/otherlibs/orbit.xml@ cc9a625

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  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY ORBit-download-http "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ORBit/0.5/ORBit-&ORBit-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY ORBit-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ORBit/0.5/ORBit-&ORBit-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY ORBit-md5sum        "35acc6f8d49d930b566104fcceb893d3">
  <!ENTITY ORBit-size          "1.0 MB">
  <!ENTITY ORBit-buildsize     "29 MB">
  <!ENTITY ORBit-time          "0.6 SBU">
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<sect1 id="ORBit" xreflabel="ORBit-&ORBit-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="ORBit.html"?>

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

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

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

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

    <para>The <application>ORBit</application> package contains a
    high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker. This allows programs
    to send requests and receive replies from other programs.</para>

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

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="GLib"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="tcpwrappers"/></para>

  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome-1.4 &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 &amp;&amp;
install -v -m755 -d /opt/gnome-1.4/share/doc/ORBit-&ORBit-version; &amp;&amp;
cp -v -R docs/* /opt/gnome-1.4/share/doc/ORBit-&ORBit-version;</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>ior-decode, libIDL-config, name-client, old-name-server,
        orbit-config, orbit-idl, orbit-ird, orbit-event-server, and
        orbit-name-server</seg>
        <seg>libIDL.[so,a], libIIOP.[so,a], libname-server.a,
        liborbit-c-backend.a, libORBit.[so,a], libORBitCosNaming.[so,a],
        and libORBitutil.[so,a]</seg>
        <seg>/opt/gnome-1.4,
        /opt/gnome-1.4/include/libIDL-1.0,
        /opt/gnome-1.4/include/orbit-1.0,
        /opt/gnome-1.4/share/doc/ORBit-&ORBit-version; and
        /opt/gnome-1.4/share/idl</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="libIDL-ORBit">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libIDL.[so,a]</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>library is the Interface Definition Language mappings for
          CORBA.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ORBit libIDL-ORBit">
            <primary sortas="c-libIDL">libIDL.[so,a]</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libIIOP">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libIIOP.[so,a]</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is for low level CORBA communications.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ORBit libIIOP">
            <primary sortas="c-libIIOP">libIIOP.[so,a]</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libORBit">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libORBit.[so,a]</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is the CORBA API.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ORBit libORBit">
            <primary sortas="c-libORBit">libORBit.[so,a]</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libORBitutil">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libORBitutil.[so,a]</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contains the convenience routines for
          <application>ORBit</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ORBit libORBitutil">
            <primary sortas="c-libORBitutil">libORBitutil.[so,a]</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>