Zirconium Linux From Scratch - Version r12.4-45-systemd

Chapter 11. Post Networking, Compilers and Markup Language

libassuan-3.0.2

Introduction to libassuan

The libassuan package contains an inter process communication library used by some of the other GnuPG related packages. libassuan's primary use is to allow a client to interact with a non-persistent server. libassuan is not, however, limited to use with GnuPG servers and clients. It was designed to be flexible enough to meet the demands of many transaction based environments with non-persistent servers.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.4 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (HTTP): https://www.gnupg.org/ftp/gcrypt/libassuan/libassuan-3.0.2.tar.bz2

  • Download SHA256 Sum: d2931cdad266e633510f9970e1a2f346055e351bb19f9b78912475b8074c36f6

  • Download MD5 sum: c6f1bf4bd2aaa79cd1635dcc070ba51a

  • Download size: 580 KB

  • Estimated disk space required: 6.5 MB (with tests, add 3.4 MB for pdf documentation)

  • Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (with tests and html documentation)

libassuan Dependencies

Required

libgpg-error-1.56

Optional

"texlive" (or "tl-installer")

Installation of libassuan

Prepare libassuan by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr

To Build the package, issue: 

make
make -C doc html
makeinfo --html --no-split -o doc/assuan_nochunks.html doc/assuan.texi
makeinfo --plaintext       -o doc/assuan.txt           doc/assuan.texi
[Note]

Note

The above commands build the documentation in html and plaintext formats. If you wish to build alternate formats of the documentation, you must have "texlive" installed and issue the following commands: 

make -C doc pdf ps

To test the results, issue: 

make check

Now Install, as the root user: 

make install

install -v -dm755   /usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.2/html
install -v -m644 doc/assuan.html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.2/html
install -v -m644 doc/assuan_nochunks.html \
                    /usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.2
install -v -m644 doc/assuan.{txt,texi} \
                    /usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.2
[Note]

Note

If you built alternate formats of the documentation, install them by running the following commands as the root user: 

install -v -m644  doc/assuan.{pdf,ps,dvi} \
                  /usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.2

Contents

Installed Program: None
Installed Library: libassuan.so
Installed Directory: /usr/share/doc/libassuan-3.0.2

Short Descriptions

libassuan.so

is an inter process communication library which implements the Assuan protocol