8.110. libunistring-1.3

libunistring is a library that provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.

Approximate build time: 0.6 SBU
Required disk space: 58 MB

8.110.1. Installation of libunistring

Create the PKGBUILD for the libunistring package with the following commands:

mkdir /sources/libunistring
cd /sources/libunistring
cat > PKGBUILD << "REALEOF"
# Maintainer: Linux From Scratch <lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org>

pkgname="libunistring"
pkgver="1.3"
pkgrel="1"
pkgdesc="A library that provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard"
arch=('x86'
      'x86_64')
url="https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/"
license=('GPLv3')
groups=('core')
depends=('glibc'
         'rootfs')
makedepends=('bash'
             'binutils'
             'coreutils'
             'diffutils'
             'gawk'
             'gcc'
             'grep'
             'make'
             'sed')
source=('https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-1.3.tar.xz')
md5sums=('57dfd9e4eba93913a564aa14eab8052e')

build(){
  cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  ./configure --prefix=/usr    \
              --disable-static \
              --docdir="/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  make
}

package(){
  cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
  make DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
}
REALEOF

Prepare the build directory for the pacman user and build the package:

chown -R root:pacman .
chmod 2775 .
chmod 664 PKGBUILD
su pacman -c 'makepkg -L --nodeps'

Add the newly created package to the central package repository:

cp libunistring-1.3-1-$(uname -m).pkg.tar.xz \
   /srv/pacman/repos/LFS/
repo-add /srv/pacman/repos/LFS/LFS.db.tar.xz \
         /srv/pacman/repos/LFS/libunistring-1.3-1-$(uname -m).pkg.tar.xz

Update the local cache and install the libunistring package:

pacman -Syu
pacman -S libunistring --overwrite \* -dd --noconfirm

Finally, copy the source files into the source repository and clean up the build directory:

mkdir /srv/pacman/source/LFS/libunistring
cp PKGBUILD /srv/pacman/source/LFS/libunistring
cd /sources
rm -rf libunistring

8.110.2. Contents of libunistring

Installed Library: libunistring.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/unistring and /usr/share/doc/libunistring-1.3

Short Descriptions

libunistring

Contains the foreign function interface API functions