BOOK/chapter06/libtool.xml

   1 <sect1 id="ch-system-libtool" xreflabel="Libtool">
   2 <title>Installing Libtool-&libtool-version;</title>
   3 <?dbhtml filename="libtool.html" dir="chapter06"?>
   4
   5 <para>The Libtool package contains the GNU generic library support script.
   6 It wraps the complexity of using shared libraries in a consistent, portable
   7 interface.</para>
   8
   9 <screen>&buildtime; &libtool-time;
  10 &diskspace; &libtool-compsize;</screen>
  11
  12 &aa-libtool-down;
  13 &aa-libtool-dep;
  14
  15 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
  16
  17 <sect2>
  18 <title>Installation of Libtool</title>
  19
  20 <para>Prepare Libtool for compilation:</para>
  21
  22 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
  23
  24 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  25
  26 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  27
  28 <para>This package has a test suite available which can perform a number of
  29 checks to ensure it built correctly.  Should you choose to run it, the
  30 following command will do so:</para>
  31
  32 <screen><userinput>make check</userinput></screen>
  33
  34 <para>And install the package:</para>
  35
  36 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  37
  38 </sect2>
  39
  40 &aa-libtool-shortdesc;
  41 &aa-libtool-desc;
  42
  43 </sect1>
  44