Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-05-20

Chapter 9. General Libraries

libtasn1-2.12

Introduction to libtasn1

libtasn1 is a highly portable C library that encodes and decodes DER/BER data following an ASN.1 schema.

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

Package Information

libtasn1 Dependencies

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.18 and Valgrind (used during the test suite)

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libtasn1

Installation of libtasn1

Install libtasn1 by running the following commands: 

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

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/libtasn1-2.12 &&
install -v -m644    doc/libtasn1.{html,pdf,ps} \
                    /usr/share/doc/libtasn1-2.12

If you did not pass the --enable-gtk-doc parameter to the configure script, install the API documentation using the following command as the root user: 

make -C doc/reference install-data-local

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: asn1Coding, asn1Decoding, and asn1Parser
Installed Library: libtasn1.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/libtasn1-2.12 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libtasn1

Short Descriptions

asn1Coding

is an ASN.1 DER encoder.

asn1Decoding

is an ASN.1 DER decoder.

asn1Parser

is an ASN.1 syntax tree generator for libtasn1.

libtasn1.{so,a}

is a library for Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) and Distinguish Encoding Rules (DER) manipulation.

Last updated on 2012-03-24 16:52:22 +0000