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-rw-r--r--appendices/dependencies.xml141
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml22
-rw-r--r--chapter01/whatsnew.xml16
-rw-r--r--chapter03/packages.xml44
-rw-r--r--chapter06/chapter06.xml9
-rw-r--r--chapter06/libffi.xml104
-rw-r--r--chapter06/meson.xml89
-rw-r--r--chapter06/ninja.xml108
-rw-r--r--chapter06/python.xml244
-rw-r--r--general.ent6
-rw-r--r--packages.ent46
-rw-r--r--prologue/why.xml40
12 files changed, 857 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/appendices/dependencies.xml b/appendices/dependencies.xml
index 9f5929bfb..5c2538346 100644
--- a/appendices/dependencies.xml
+++ b/appendices/dependencies.xml
@@ -1474,6 +1474,41 @@
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
+<!-- Begin Libffi dependency info -->
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="libffi-dep">Libffi</bridgehead>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Glibc, Make, and Sed</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>DejaGnu</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&before;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Python</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&external;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>None</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
<!-- Begin Libpipeline dependency info -->
<bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="libpipeline-dep">Libpipeline</bridgehead>
@@ -1725,6 +1760,41 @@
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
+<!-- Begin Meson dependency info -->
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="meson-dep">Meson</bridgehead>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Ninja and Python</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>No test suite available</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&before;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>None</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&external;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>None</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
<!-- Begin MPC dependency info -->
<bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="mpc-dep">MPC</bridgehead>
@@ -1834,6 +1904,41 @@
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
+<!-- Begin Ninja dependency info -->
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="ninja-dep">Ninja</bridgehead>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Binutils, Coreutils, Gcc, Python</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>None</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&before;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Meson</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&external;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Asciidoc, Doxygen, Emacs, and re2c</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
<!-- Begin Patch dependency info -->
<bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="patch-dep">Patch</bridgehead>
@@ -2047,6 +2152,42 @@
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
+<!-- Begin Python dependency info -->
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="python-dep">Python</bridgehead>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&dependencies;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep,
+ Libffi, Make, Ncurses, and Sed</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&testsuites;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>GDB and Valgrind</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&before;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Ninja</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&external;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>Berkeley DB, OpenSSL, SQLite, and Tk</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
<!-- Begin Readline dependency info -->
<bridgehead renderas="sect2" id="readline-dep">Readline</bridgehead>
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 22a64b069..58fa69fe9 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -43,6 +43,28 @@
appropriate for the entry or if needed the entire day's listitem.
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2017-09-23</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Add Meson-0.42.1.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Add Ninja-1.8.2.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Add Python-3.6.2.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Add libffi-3.2.1.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Update to eudev-3.2.4. Fixes
+ <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;4140">#4140</ulink>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2017-09-22</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
diff --git a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
index b4de26d39..9faf53bad 100644
--- a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
+++ b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
@@ -254,11 +254,21 @@
<title>Added:</title>
<listitem><para></para></listitem> <!-- satisfy build -->
-<!--
<listitem>
- <para>gcc-6.1.0-asan-1.patch</para>
+ <para>Libff-&libffi-version;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Python-&python-version;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Ninja&ninja-version;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Meson&meson-version;</para>
</listitem>
--->
</itemizedlist>
<itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter03/packages.xml b/chapter03/packages.xml
index 8a5d162b0..d2674a40b 100644
--- a/chapter03/packages.xml
+++ b/chapter03/packages.xml
@@ -397,6 +397,15 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>Libffi (&libffi-version;) - <token>&libffi-size;</token>:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Home page: <ulink url="&libffi-home;"/></para>
+ <para>Download: <ulink url="&libffi-url;"/></para>
+ <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&libffi-md5;</literal></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>Libpipeline (&libpipeline-version;) - <token>&libpipeline-size;</token>:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Home page: <ulink url="&libpipeline-home;"/></para>
@@ -474,6 +483,15 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>Meson (&meson-version;) - <token>&meson-size;</token>:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Home page: <ulink url="&meson-home;"/></para>
+ <para>Download: <ulink url="&meson-url;"/></para>
+ <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&meson-md5;</literal></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>MPC (&mpc-version;) - <token>&mpc-size;</token>:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Home page: <ulink url="&mpc-home;"/></para>
@@ -492,6 +510,15 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>Ninja (&ninja-version;) - <token>&ninja-size;</token>:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Home page: <ulink url="&ninja-home;"/></para>
+ <para>Download: <ulink url="&ninja-url;"/></para>
+ <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&ninja-md5;</literal></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>Ncurses (&ncurses-version;) - <token>&ncurses-size;</token>:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Home page: <ulink url="&ncurses-home;"/></para>
@@ -546,6 +573,23 @@
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
+ <term>Python (&python-version;) - <token>&python-size;</token>:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Home page: <ulink url="&python-home;"/></para>
+ <para>Download: <ulink url="&python-url;"/></para>
+ <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&python-md5;</literal></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>Python Documentation (&python-version;) - <token>&python-docs-size;</token>:</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Download: <ulink url="&python-docs-url;"/></para>
+ <para>MD5 sum: <literal>&python-docs-md5;</literal></para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
<term>Readline (&readline-version;) - <token>&readline-size;</token>:</term>
<listitem>
<para>Home page: <ulink url="&readline-home;"/></para>
diff --git a/chapter06/chapter06.xml b/chapter06/chapter06.xml
index 8f4a8f46f..401ce50ee 100644
--- a/chapter06/chapter06.xml
+++ b/chapter06/chapter06.xml
@@ -38,6 +38,14 @@
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="acl.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="libcap.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="sed.xml"/>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="expat.xml"/>
+
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="libffi.xml"/>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="python.xml"/>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="ninja.xml"/>
+ <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="meson.xml"/>
+
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="shadow.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="psmisc.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="iana-etc.xml"/>
@@ -48,7 +56,6 @@
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="libtool.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="gdbm.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="gperf.xml"/>
- <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="expat.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="inetutils.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="perl.xml"/>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" href="xml-parser.xml"/>
diff --git a/chapter06/libffi.xml b/chapter06/libffi.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c04a39f69
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chapter06/libffi.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-libffi" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="libffi.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>libffi</productname>
+ <productnumber>&libffi-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&libffi-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>libffi-&libffi-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-libffi">
+ <primary sortas="a-libffi">libffi</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming
+ interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call
+ any function specified by a call interface description at run time.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&libffi-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&libffi-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of libffi</title>
+
+ <para>Modify the Makefile to install headers into the standard
+ <filename class="directory">/usr/include</filename> directory instead of
+ <filename class="directory">/usr/lib/libffi-3.2.1/include</filename>.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '/^includesdir/ s/$(libdir).*$/$(includedir)/' \
+ -i include/Makefile.in
+
+sed -e '/^includedir/ s/=.*$/=@includedir@/' \
+ -e 's/^Cflags: -I${includedir}/Cflags:/' \
+ -i libffi.pc.in</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Prepare libffi for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-libffi" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of libffi</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>libffi.so</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="libffi">
+ <term><filename class="libraryfile">libffi</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>contains the libffi API functions.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-libffi">
+ <primary sortas="c-libffi">libffi</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
diff --git a/chapter06/meson.xml b/chapter06/meson.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5bc2fce6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chapter06/meson.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-meson" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="meson.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>meson</productname>
+ <productnumber>&meson-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&meson-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Meson-&meson-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson">
+ <primary sortas="a-Meson">Meson</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast,
+ and, even more importantly, as user friendly as possible.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&meson-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&meson-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Meson</title>
+
+ <para>Compile Meson with the following command:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">python3 setup.py build</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">python3 setup.py install</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-meson" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Meson</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>libmeson.so</seg>
+ <seg>/usr/share/doc/meson-&meson-version;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="libmeson">
+ <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmeson</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Contains multiple-precision math functions</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-meson libmeson">
+ <primary sortas="c-libmeson">libmeson</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
diff --git a/chapter06/ninja.xml b/chapter06/ninja.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28db9df21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chapter06/ninja.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-ninja" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="ninja.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>ninja</productname>
+ <productnumber>&ninja-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&ninja-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Ninja-&ninja-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-ninja">
+ <primary sortas="a-Ninja">Ninja</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&ninja-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&ninja-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Ninja</title>
+
+ <para>Prepare Ninja for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">python3 configure.py --bootstrap</userinput></screen>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--bootstrap</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This parameter forces ninja to rebuild itself for the current
+ system.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>To test the results, issue:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">python3 configure.py
+./ninja ninja_test
+./ninja_test --gtest_filter=-SubprocessTest.SetWithLots</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">install -vm755 ninja /usr/bin/
+install -vDm644 misc/ninja.vim \
+ /usr/share/vim/vim&vim-majmin;/syntax/ninja.vim
+install -vDm644 misc/bash-completion \
+ /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/ninja
+install -vDm644 misc/zsh-completion \
+ /usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_ninja</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-ninja" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Ninja</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>ninja</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="ninja">
+ <term><command>ninja</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>is the Ninja build system.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-ninja ninja">
+ <primary sortas="b-ninja">ninja</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
diff --git a/chapter06/python.xml b/chapter06/python.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d680bc735
--- /dev/null
+++ b/chapter06/python.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,244 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-Python" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="Python.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>Python</productname>
+ <productnumber>&python-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&python-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Python-&python-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
+ <primary sortas="a-python">python</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The Python 3 package contains the Python development environment. It
+ is useful for object-oriented programming, writing scripts, prototyping
+ large programs or developing entire applications.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&python-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&python-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Python 3</title>
+
+ <para>Prepare Python for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr \
+ --enable-shared \
+ --with-system-expat \
+ --with-system-ffi \
+ --with-ensurepip=yes \
+ --enable-unicode=ucs4</userinput></screen>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--with-system-expat</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This switch enables linking against system version of
+ <application>Expat</application>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--with-system-ffi</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This switch enables linking against system version of
+ <application>libffi</application>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--with-ensurepip=yes</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This switch enables building <command>pip</command> and
+ <command>setuptools</command> packaging programs.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><parameter>--enable-unicode=ucs4</parameter></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>This switch enables 32bit Unicode support in
+ <application>Python</application>.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>The test suite requires TK and and X Windows session and cannot
+ be run until Python 3 is reinstalled in BLFS.</para>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install
+chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.6m.so
+chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.so</userinput></screen>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the install commands:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><command>chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libpython3.{6m.,}so</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Fix permissions for libraries to be consistent with other
+ libraries.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ <para>If desired, install the preformatted documentation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html
+
+tar --strip-components=1 \
+ --no-same-owner \
+ --no-same-permissions \
+ -C /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;/html \
+ -xvf ../python-&python-version;-docs-html.tar.bz2</userinput></screen>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <title>The meaning of the documentation install commands:</title>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term><option>--no-same-owner</option> and --no-same-permissions</term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Ensure the installed files have the correct ownership and
+ prermissions. Without these options, using <application>tar</application>
+ will install the package files with the upstream creator's values.
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-python" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Python 3</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>
+ 2to3, idle3, pydoc3, python3, python3-config, pyvenv
+ </seg>
+ <seg>
+ libpython3.6m.so and libpython3.so
+ </seg>
+ <seg>
+ /usr/include/python3.6m, /usr/lib/python3 and
+ /usr/share/doc/python-&python-version;
+ </seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="python-2to3">
+ <term><command>2to3</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ is a <application>Python</application> program that reads
+ <application>Python 2.x</application> source code and applies a
+ series of fixes to transform it into valid
+ <application>Python 3.x</application> code.
+ </para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
+ <primary sortas="b-2to3">2to3</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="idle3">
+ <term><command>idle3</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ is a wrapper script that opens a <application>Python</application>
+ aware GUI editor. For this script to run, you must have installed
+ <application>Tk</application> before Python so that the Tkinter
+ Python module is built.
+ </para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
+ <primary sortas="b-idle3">idle3</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="pydoc3">
+ <term><command>pydoc3</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ is the <application>Python</application> documentation tool.
+ </para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
+ <primary sortas="b-pydoc3">pydoc3</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="python3">
+ <term><command>python3</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
+ language.
+ </para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
+ <primary sortas="b-python3">python3</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="pyvenv">
+ <term><command>pyvenv</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ creates virtual <application>Python</application> environments in
+ one or more target directories.
+ </para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-Python">
+ <primary sortas="b-pyvenv">pyvenv</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>
+
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index b97c14a64..b072e20b6 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20170922">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20170923">
<!ENTITY short-version "svn"> <!-- Used below in &blfs-book;
Change to x.y for release but not -rc releases -->
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development" or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->
-<!ENTITY versiond "20170922-systemd">
+<!ENTITY versiond "20170923-systemd">
<!ENTITY short-versiond "systemd">
<!ENTITY generic-versiond "systemd">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "September 22, 2017">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "September 23, 2017">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2017"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
<!ENTITY milestone "8.2">
diff --git a/packages.ent b/packages.ent
index 9ad11672c..e769b38ba 100644
--- a/packages.ent
+++ b/packages.ent
@@ -145,10 +145,10 @@
<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-ch6-du "58 MB">
<!ENTITY e2fsprogs-ch6-sbu "3.3 SBU">
-<!ENTITY eudev-version "3.2.3">
+<!ENTITY eudev-version "3.2.4">
<!ENTITY eudev-size "1,813 KB">
<!ENTITY eudev-url "http://dev.gentoo.org/~blueness/eudev/eudev-&eudev-version;.tar.gz">
-<!ENTITY eudev-md5 "1e91710d6c42f03f803108091be5878f">
+<!ENTITY eudev-md5 "66acef4c6094aab4aced7ae83b74b0d2">
<!ENTITY eudev-ch6-du "78 MB">
<!ENTITY eudev-ch6-sbu "0.2 SBU">
@@ -382,6 +382,14 @@
<!ENTITY libcap-ch6-du "1.3 MB">
<!ENTITY libcap-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
+<!ENTITY libffi-version "3.2.1">
+<!ENTITY libffi-size "920 KB">
+<!ENTITY libffi-url "ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libffi/libffi-&libffi-version;.tar.gz">
+<!ENTITY libffi-md5 "83b89587607e3eb65c70d361f13bab43">
+<!ENTITY libffi-home "https://sourceware.org/libffi/">
+<!ENTITY libffi-ch6-du "6.1 MB">
+<!ENTITY libffi-ch6-sbu "0.1 SBU">
+
<!ENTITY libpipeline-version "1.4.2">
<!ENTITY libpipeline-size "808 KB">
<!ENTITY libpipeline-url "&savannah;/releases/libpipeline/libpipeline-&libpipeline-version;.tar.gz">
@@ -454,6 +462,14 @@
<!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-du "27 MB">
<!ENTITY man-pages-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
+<!ENTITY meson-version "0.42.1">
+<!ENTITY meson-size "1,021 KB">
+<!ENTITY meson-url "https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/&meson-version;/meson-&meson-version;.tar.gz">
+<!ENTITY meson-md5 "a8ff06ab5e138dec64cbfa249ff4f8bb">
+<!ENTITY meson-home "http://mesonbuild.com">
+<!ENTITY meson-ch6-du "30 MB">
+<!ENTITY meson-ch6-sbu "0.4 SBU">
+
<!ENTITY mpc-version "1.0.3">
<!ENTITY mpc-size "655 KB">
<!ENTITY mpc-url "http://www.multiprecision.org/mpc/download/mpc-&mpc-version;.tar.gz">
@@ -462,10 +478,10 @@
<!ENTITY mpc-ch6-du "17 MB">
<!ENTITY mpc-ch6-sbu "0.3 SBU">
-<!ENTITY mpfr-version "3.1.5">
-<!ENTITY mpfr-size "1,101 KB">
+<!ENTITY mpfr-version "3.1.6">
+<!ENTITY mpfr-size "1,108 KB">
<!ENTITY mpfr-url "http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-&mpfr-version;/mpfr-&mpfr-version;.tar.xz">
-<!ENTITY mpfr-md5 "c4ac246cf9795a4491e7766002cd528f">
+<!ENTITY mpfr-md5 "51bfdbf81553966c8d43808122cc81b3">
<!ENTITY mpfr-home "http://www.mpfr.org/">
<!ENTITY mpfr-ch6-du "45 MB">
<!ENTITY mpfr-ch6-sbu "0.8 SBU">
@@ -480,6 +496,14 @@
<!ENTITY ncurses-ch6-du "39 MB">
<!ENTITY ncurses-ch6-sbu "0.3 SBU">
+<!ENTITY ninja-version "1.8.2">
+<!ENTITY ninja-size "181 KB">
+<!ENTITY ninja-url "https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/archive/v&ninja-version;/ninja-&ninja-version;.tar.gz">
+<!ENTITY ninja-md5 "5fdb04461cc7f5d02536b3bfc0300166">
+<!ENTITY ninja-home "https://ninja-build.org/">
+<!ENTITY ninja-ch6-du "58.0 MB">
+<!ENTITY ninja-ch6-sbu "0.2 SBU">
+
<!ENTITY patch-version "2.7.5">
<!ENTITY patch-size "711 KB">
<!ENTITY patch-url "&gnu;patch/patch-&patch-version;.tar.xz">
@@ -524,6 +548,17 @@
<!ENTITY psmisc-ch6-du "4.2 MB">
<!ENTITY psmisc-ch6-sbu "less than 0.1 SBU">
+<!ENTITY python-version "3.6.2">
+<!ENTITY python-size "16,511 KB">
+<!ENTITY python-url "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/&python-version;/Python-&python-version;.tar.xz">
+<!ENTITY python-md5 "2c68846471994897278364fc18730dd9">
+<!ENTITY python-home "https://www.python.org/">
+<!ENTITY python-ch6-du "355 MB">
+<!ENTITY python-ch6-sbu "1.3 SBU">
+<!ENTITY python-docs-url "https://docs.python.org/3.6/archives/python-3.6.2-docs-html.tar.bz2">
+<!ENTITY python-docs-md5 "7f14038af43b80251dbbb37e30e35f78">
+<!ENTITY python-docs-size "5,976 MB">
+
<!ENTITY readline-version "7.0">
<!ENTITY readline-size "2,842 KB">
<!ENTITY readline-url "&gnu;readline/readline-&readline-version;.tar.gz">
@@ -626,6 +661,7 @@
<!ENTITY util-linux-ch6-sbu "1.0 SBU">
<!ENTITY vim-version "8.0.586">
+<!ENTITY vim-majmin "80">
<!ENTITY vim-docdir "vim/vim80">
<!ENTITY vim-size "10,613 KB">
<!ENTITY vim-url "ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-&vim-version;.tar.bz2">
diff --git a/prologue/why.xml b/prologue/why.xml
index 761cf138d..b85281842 100644
--- a/prologue/why.xml
+++ b/prologue/why.xml
@@ -327,6 +327,19 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Libffi</para>
+
+ <para>This package implements a portable, high level programming
+ interface to various calling conventions. Some programs may not know
+ at the time of compilation what arguments are to be passed to a
+ function. For instance, an interpreter may be told at run-time about
+ the number and types of arguments used to call a given function. Libffi
+ can be used in such programs to provide a bridge from the interpreter
+ program to compiled code.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Libpipeline</para>
<para>The Libpipeline package contains a library for manipulating
@@ -381,6 +394,16 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Meson</para>
+
+ <para>This package provides a software tool for automating the building
+ of software. The main goal for Meson is to minimize the amount of time
+ that software developers need to spend configuring their build
+ system.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>MPC</para>
<para>This package contains functions for the arithmetic of complex
@@ -395,6 +418,15 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Ninja</para>
+
+ <para>This package contains a small build system with a focus on speed.
+ It is designed to have its input files generated by a higher-level build
+ system, and to run builds as fast as possible.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Ncurses</para>
<para>This package contains libraries for terminal-independent
@@ -444,6 +476,14 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
+ <para>Python 3</para>
+
+ <para>This package provides an interpreted language that has a design
+ philosophy that emphasizes code readability.</para>
+
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>Readline</para>
<para>This package is a set of libraries that offers command-line