Highlight is an utility that converts source code to formatted text with syntax highlighting.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://www.andre-simon.de/zip/highlight-4.4.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: e61056f9cfe5f865ea7f87c74f05d22f
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 31 MB (with gui)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (Using paralllelism=4; with gui)
Qt-5.15.8 (to build the GUI front-end)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/highlight
For consistency, do not compress man pages.
sed -i '/GZIP/s/^/#/' makefile
To build Highlight run the following command:
make
To build the Qt5 GUI front-end, run the following command:
make doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/highlight-4.4/ gui
This package does not come with a test suite.
To install Highlight, run the
following command as the root
user:
make doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/highlight-4.4/ install
To install the GUI program, run the following command as the
root
user:
make install-gui
doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/highlight-4.4/
:
installs the highlight documentation into a versioned directory.
This parameter is also needed for make gui, because its value would
be hardcoded into the gui executable. Note that the trailing
“/” is necessary.