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libidn - Implementation of the Stringprep, Punycode and IDNA 2003 specifications ChangeLog

Web site:	https://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/
Repository:	https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libidn/

HOWTO

# GNU Libidn 1.35
# ===============
# IDN = Internationalized Domain Names

# Slackware 13.37: libidn 1.19
# Slackware 14.0, 14.1: libidn 1.25
# Slackware 14.2: libidn 1.30

# There is also a libidn2, which is not libidn 2.x, but libidn2 x.x.x

# Usually a release announcement is posted here, but I don't see one for
# 1.35:
# http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-libidn/

# Prerequisites:
# gettext (if you do not use --disable-nls)
# libc's iconv or libiconv
# Emacs (optional)
# Valgrind (optional)
# pkg-config
# gtk-doc (Slackware includes this in the sgml-tools/linuxdoc-tools)

# Get it
cd
test -f installed/libidn-1.35.tar.gz &&
mv -f installed/libidn-1.35.tar.gz .
test ! -f libidn-1.35.tar.gz &&
wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.35.tar.gz

# Verify tarball w/ sha1sum:
# (this came from my gpg-verified tarball)
echo "d06a1e04caf5478cfb3ce525a83701a73b564fca  libidn-1.35.tar.gz" | \
sha1sum -c

# Verify tarball w/ gpg:
( gpg --list-keys A2670428 > /dev/null 2>&1 || gpg --recv-keys A2670428 ) &&
wget -nc https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gnu/libidn/libidn-1.35.tar.gz.sig &&
  gpg --verify libidn-1.35.tar.gz.sig && rm libidn-1.35.tar.gz.sig

# Extract the source
mkdir -p -m 0700 ~/src
cd ~/src
find -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "libidn-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
tar xzvf ~/libidn-1.35.tar.gz
cd libidn-1.35
test $UID = 0 && chown -R root:root .

# I use --disable-nls because I only read/write English (well)
# Seems kind of odd to use for a library that handles internationalization,
# so you may want to leave that off

# Configure the build for 64-bit
test $(uname -m) = 'x86_64' &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/info --libdir=/usr/lib64 \
--mandir=/usr/man --disable-static

# Configure the build for anything else
test $(uname -m) != 'x86_64' &&
./configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/info --mandir=/usr/man \
--disable-static

# Build it
make

# Become root to install it
su

# Remove the Slackware package, if there is one
# You will still have libidn.so.* after this because it is also
# part of the aaa_elflibs package
test -x /sbin/removepkg && /sbin/removepkg libidn

# Install it
make install
ldconfig

# Make sure your non-root user can remove the source later
chown -R $(logname) .
chmod -R u+w .

# Become yourself again
exit

# Save the source for later
cd
mkdir -p -m 0700 src
rm -f installed/libidn-*.tar.*
mv libidn-1.35.tar.gz installed/

# If you ever want to uninstall Libidn, this should do it:
cd
su
test -d src/libidn-* && ( cd src/libidn-* ; make uninstall )
( cd /usr/include
  rm -f idn-free.h idn-int.h idna.h pr29.h punycode.h stringprep.h tld.h )
( /usr/info ; rm -f libidn.info libidn-components.png )
( cd /usr/man/man3
  rm -f idn_free.3 idna_*.3 pr29_*.3 punycode_decode.3 punycode_encode.3 \
   punycode_strerror.3 stringprep.3 stringprep_*.3 tld_*.3 )
( cd /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp ; rm -f idna.el punycode.el )
find /usr/share/locale -type d -name "libidn.mo" -exec rm {} \;
rm -f /usr/bin/idn /usr/lib*/libidn.* /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/libidn.pc \
/usr/man/man1/idn.1
ldconfig
exit
find ~/src -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "libidn-*" -exec rm -r {} \;
rm -f ~/installed/libidn-*.tar.*