glfs/general/genlib/libtasn1.xml

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

  <!ENTITY libtasn1-download-http "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-&libtasn1-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-download-ftp  "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtasn1/libtasn1-&libtasn1-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-md5sum        "9a6767705725544f2b86670dcfb34107">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-size          "1.8 MB">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-buildsize     "11 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY libtasn1-time          "0.3 SBU (with tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="libtasn1" xreflabel="libtasn1-&libtasn1-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="libtasn1.html"?>

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

  <title>libtasn1-&libtasn1-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="libtasn1">
    <primary sortas="a-libtasn1">libtasn1</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to libtasn1</title>

    <para>
      <application>libtasn1</application> is a highly portable C library
      that encodes and decodes DER/BER data following an ASN.1 schema.
    </para>

     &lfs79_checked;&gcc6_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&libtasn1-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&libtasn1-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &libtasn1-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &libtasn1-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &libtasn1-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &libtasn1-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">libtasn1 Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and
      <xref linkend="valgrind"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/libtasn1"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of libtasn1</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>libtasn1</application> by running the
      following commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &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</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you did not pass the <option>--enable-gtk-doc</option> parameter
      to the <command>configure</command> script, you can install the API
      documentation using the following command as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make -C doc/reference install-data-local</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>

  </sect2>

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

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          asn1Coding, asn1Decoding and asn1Parser
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libtasn1.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libtasn1
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="asn1Coding">
        <term><command>asn1Coding</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an ASN.1 DER encoder.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libtasn1 asn1Coding">
            <primary sortas="b-asn1Coding">asn1Coding</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="asn1Decoding">
        <term><command>asn1Decoding</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an ASN.1 DER decoder.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libtasn1 asn1Decoding">
            <primary sortas="b-asn1Decoding">asn1Decoding</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="asn1Parser">
        <term><command>asn1Parser</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is an ASN.1 syntax tree generator for
            <application>libtasn1</application>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libtasn1 asn1Parser">
            <primary sortas="b-asn1Parser">asn1Parser</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libtasn1-lib">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libtasn1.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a library for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and
            Distinguish Encoding Rules (DER) manipulation.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="libtasn1 libtasn1-lib">
            <primary sortas="c-libtasn1">libtasn1.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>