Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-01-16

Chapter 8. General Libraries

libdaemon-0.14

Introduction to libdaemon

The libdaemon package is a lightweight C library that eases the writing of UNIX daemons.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform.

Package Information

libdaemon Dependencies

Optional

Lynx-2.8.7rel.2 and Doxygen-1.7.5

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libdaemon

Installation of libdaemon

Install libdaemon by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

If you have Doxygen installed and wish to build the API documentation, issue the following command: 

make -C doc doxygen

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make docdir=/usr/share/doc/libdaemon-0.14 install

If you built the API documentation, install it using the following commands as the root user: 

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libdaemon-0.14/api &&
install -v -m644    doc/reference/html/* \
                    /usr/share/doc/libdaemon-0.14/api

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libdaemon.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libdaemon and /usr/share/doc/libdaemon-0.14

Short Descriptions

libdaemon.{so,a}

contains the libdaemon API functions.

Last updated on 2010-12-05 20:13:25 +0000