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-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
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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>
+