Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 6.2.0

Chapter 8. General Libraries

LibIDL-0.8.7

Introduction to LibIDL

The libIDL package contains libraries for Interface Definition Language files. This is a specification for defining portable interfaces.

Package Information

LibIDL Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.10.3

Optional to Build Documentation

teTeX-3.0

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

Installation of LibIDL

Install libIDL by running the following commands: 

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

If you have teTeX installed and wish to build the documentation, issue the following commands: 

make pdf &&
make ps &&
make html &&
makeinfo --plaintext libIDL2.texi >libIDL2.txt

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

If you built the documentation, issue the following commands as the root user to install it: 

install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.7/html &&
install -v -m644 libIDL2.{pdf,dvi,ps,txt} README \
    /usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.7 &&
install -v -m644 libIDL2.html/* /usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.7/html

Contents

Installed Program: libIDL-config-2
Installed Library: libIDL-2.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libIDL-2.0/libIDL and /usr/share/doc/libIDL-0.8.7

Short Descriptions

libIDL-config-2

determines the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use libIDL-2.

libIDL-2.{so,a}

libraries provide the functions to create and maintain trees of CORBA Interface Definition Language (IDL) files.

Last updated on 2007-02-14 11:57:11 -0600