Popt-1.16

Introduction to Popt

The popt package contains the popt libraries which are used by some programs to parse command-line options.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.

Install popt by running the following commands:

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

If you have Doxygen-1.7.5 installed and wish to build the API documentation, issue doxygen.

To test the results, issue:

make check

Now, as the root user:

make install

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

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/popt-1.16 &&
install -v -m644 doxygen/html/* /usr/share/doc/popt-1.16

Installed Programs: None

Installed Library: libpopt.{so,a}

Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/popt-1.16

libpopt.{so,a}

is used to parse command-line options.

Last updated on 2011-10-24 20:28:43 +0000