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38 lines
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skalibs is a package centralizing the free software / open source C
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development files used for building all software at skarnet.org: it
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contains essentially general-purpose libraries. You will need to
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install skalibs if you plan to build skarnet.org software. The point
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is that you won't have to download and compile big libraries, and care
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about portability issues, everytime you need to build a package: do it
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only once.
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skalibs can also be used as a sound basic start for C development.
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There are a lot of general-purpose libraries out there; but if your
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main goal is to produce small and secure C code with a focus on system
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programming, skalibs might be for you.
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NOTE:
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Upstream recommends building skarnet.org softwares with static libraries
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as most of skarnet.org softwares are small enough that using shared
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libraries are generally not worth using. Therefore, the SlackBuild
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script will only build the static libraries by default.
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If you want to also build the shared libraries, pass BUILD_SHARED=yes
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environment variable to the script like below:
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BUILD_SHARED=yes ./skalibs.SlackBuild
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Similarly, to avoid building the static libraries, you can pass
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BUILD_STATIC=no to the script. For example, to only build the shared
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libraries and not the static ones, you can do something like
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BUILD_SHARED=yes BUILD_STATIC=no ./skalibs.SlackBuild
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If you just want to build and use skarnet.org softwares, building only
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the static libraries should be sufficient.
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Also, the execvep() function from skalibs (used by all skarnet.org
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softwares) has a default executable search path that will be used if the
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PATH environment variable is undefined. The default is /usr/bin:/bin.
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Pass DEF_PATH=some:path:list to the script if you want to change it.
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