source: gnome/otherlibs/soup.xml@ ce4eef0

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

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<!ENTITY soup-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/soup/0.7/soup-&soup-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY soup-md5sum "61bb2fef816ce164af62f8a3a5bd782e">
<!ENTITY soup-size "324 KB">
<!ENTITY soup-buildsize "11.1 MB">
<!ENTITY soup-time "0.33">
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<sect1 id="soup" xreflabel="Soup-&soup-version;">
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<?dbhtml filename="soup.html"?>
<title><application>Soup</application>-&soup-version;</title>

<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Soup</application></title>

<para>The <application>Soup</application> package contains a
<acronym>SOAP</acronym> (Simple Object Access Protocol)
implementation in <application>C</application>.</para>

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

<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Required Patch (if compiled with 
<application><acronym>GCC</acronym></application>-3.4.x): <ulink 
url="&patch-root;/soup-&soup-version;-gcc_3.4-1.patch"/></para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>

<sect3><title><application>Soup</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para><xref linkend="GLib"/> or <xref linkend="GLib2"/>, 
<xref linkend="libxml2"/> and 
<xref linkend="popt"/></para>
</sect4>

<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para><xref linkend="apache"/>, 
<xref linkend="openssl"/>, 
<xref linkend="mozilla"/> (for the <acronym>NSS</acronym> libraries), 
<xref linkend="gnome-libs"/>, 
<xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and 
<xref linkend="docbook-utils"/></para>
</sect4>
</sect3>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Installation of <application>Soup</application></title>

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

<screen><userinput><command>patch -Np1 -i ../soup-&soup-version;-gcc_3.4-1.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/opt/gnome &amp;&amp;
make &amp;&amp;
make install</command></userinput></screen>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Command explanations</title>

<para><parameter>--prefix=/opt/gnome</parameter>: Installs 
<application>Soup</application> in the
<application><acronym>GNOME</acronym></application> 1.4 directory
structure.</para>

<para><parameter>--enable-apache=no</parameter>: This command can be added
to prevent building against <application>Apache</application>.</para>

</sect2>

<sect2>
<title>Contents</title>

<para>The <application>Soup</application> package contains
<acronym>SOAP</acronym> libraries, used to implement
<acronym>XML</acronym> remote procedure calls.</para>

</sect2>

</sect1>