1To compile libabigail, you first need to install its dependencies. At 2the moment the dependencies are the following Free Software packages: 3 4 elfutils 5 libtool 6 libxml2 7 8If you are building from the Git repository, then you'd also need the 9following packages: 10 11 autoconf 12 automake 13 pkg-config 14 15If you want to build the documentation of libabigail, then you also 16need these packages (and its dependencies): 17 18 doxygen 19 python-sphinx 20 21Note that if you are installing these packages in a binary form 22provided by your distribution, then you probably need to install the 23development variant of those that have one. 24 25Once you have installed the development packages of the dependencies, 26there are two options for compiling libabigail, depending on the two 27kinds of source code package you have: either you've got the source 28code from our Git source control management system, or you've got a 29released tarball. 30 31* Getting and compiling libabigail from Git 32=========================================== 33 34To get the source code from git, you have to type: 35 36 git clone git://sourceware.org/git/libabigail.git 37 38Please note that to compile libabigail from its sources in this case, 39you need to have the 'autoconf' page installed on your machine. 40 41Then go to your local libabigail.git directory where the source code 42you've checked out lies and create a 'build' directory that will 43receive the binaries resulting from the compilation: 44 45 cd libabigail.git 46 mkdir build 47 48Generate the relevant build-system-related information needed to 49configure the package for compilation, by typing: 50 51 autoreconf -i 52 53Then configure the package: 54 55 cd build 56 ../configure --prefix=<absolute-path-of-where-you-want-the-binaries-to-be-installed> 57 58Then build the package 59 60 make 61 62And then install its resulting binaries and documentation: 63 64 make install 65 66* Getting and compiling libabigail from released tarballs 67========================================================= 68 69First, get a tarball from ftp://sourceware.org/pub/libabigail. 70 71Then untar it and go to the resulting source directory. 72 73Then create a build directory that is to receive the result of the 74compilation and cd into it: 75 76 mkdir build 77 cd build 78 79Then configure the package: 80 81 ../configure --prefix=<absolute-path-of-where-you-want-the-binaries-to-be-installed> 82 83Then compile it: 84 85 make 86 87Then install the resulting binaries 88 89 make install 90 91* Building the documentation of libabigail 92========================================== 93 94To build the documentation of libabigail, you need to install the 95python-sphinx package prior to running configure. 96 97Once you've done that, type: 98 99 make doc 100 101This will generate the documentation in html, info and man format, in 102under the doc/ subdirectory of your build directory. 103 104If you only want the html documentation (mainly the web site, apidoc and manuals) then just type: 105 106 make html-doc 107 108If you only want to generate the man documentation, just type: 109 110 make man 111 112If you only want to generate the info documentation, just type: 113 114 make info 115