Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.4

Chapter 11. General Utilities

Compface-1.5.2

Introduction to Compface

Compface provides utilities and a library to convert from/to X-Face format, a 48x48 bitmap format used to carry thumbnails of email authors in a mail header.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.4 platform.

Package Information

Installation of Compface

First, fix the configure script so that it's C99 compatible: 

autoreconf

Next, fix a build failure that occurs with GCC 14: 

sed -e '/compface.h/a #include <unistd.h>' \
    -i cmain.c                             \
    -i uncmain.c

Install Compface by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -m755 -v xbm2xface.pl /usr/bin

Contents

Installed Programs: compface, uncompface and xbm2xface.pl
Installed Library: libcompface.a
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

compface

is a filter for generating highly compressed representations of 48x48x1 face image files

uncompface

is an inverse filter which performs an inverse transformation with no loss of data

xbm2xface.pl

is a script to generate xfaces

libcompface.a

allows the compression and decompression algorithms to be used in other programs such as MTAs