The popt package contains the popt libraries which are used by some programs to parse command-line options.
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Estimated disk space required: 8.3 MB (includes installing documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
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Install popt by running the following commands:
sed -i -e "/*origOptString ==/c 0)" popt.c && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make
If you have Doxygen-1.5.2 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-1.10.4 && install -v -m644 doxygen/html/* /usr/share/doc/popt-1.10.4
sed ...: This fix taken backported from the development version of popt fixes a problem identified by the included testsuite.
Last updated on 2008-08-10 16:20:02 -0500