The libsoup is HTTP client/server library for GNOME. It uses GObject and the GLib main loop to integrate with GNOME applications and it also has an asynchronous API for use in threaded applications.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.48/libsoup-2.48.1.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/libsoup/2.48/libsoup-2.48.1.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 0a8d96e317c29a1fd711687931f8c10c
Download size: 1.7 MB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB (additional 10 MB to run the test suite)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU to run the test suite)
glib-networking-2.42.1, libxml2-2.9.2 and SQLite-3.8.8.2
Apache-2.4.12 (required to run the test suite), cURL-7.40.0 (required to run the test suite), GTK-Doc-1.21, PHP-5.6.6 compiled with XMLRPC-EPI support (only used for the XMLRPC regression tests) and Samba-4.1.17 (ntlm_auth is required to run the test suite).
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libsoup
Install libsoup by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static && make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root user:
make install
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if
GTK-Doc is installed and you wish
to rebuild and install the API documentation.
Last updated on 2015-02-22 21:16:54 -0800