Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.9

Chapter 46. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

libvorbis-1.3.5

Introduction to libvorbis

The libvorbis package contains a general purpose audio and music encoding format. This is useful for creating (encoding) and playing (decoding) sound in an open (patent free) format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.9 platform.

Package Information

libvorbis Dependencies

Required

libogg-1.3.2

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.11 and texlive-20150521 (or install-tl-unx) (specifically, pdflatex and htlatex) to build the PDF documentation

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Libvorbis

Installation of libvorbis

Optionally fix installation of the package when --enable-docs is added to the configure switches: 

sed -i '/components.png \\/{n;d}' doc/Makefile.in

Install libvorbis by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make LIBS=-lm check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m644 doc/Vorbis* /usr/share/doc/libvorbis-1.3.5

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-docs: This switch enables building the documentation in formats other than the supplied html.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libvorbis.so, libvorbisenc.so and libvorbisfile.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/vorbis and /usr/share/doc/libvorbis-1.3.5

Short Descriptions

libvorbis.so

provides the functions used to read and write sound files.

Last updated on 2016-02-24 00:06:22 -0800