Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.2

Chapter 4. Security

liboauth-1.0.3

Introduction to liboauth

liboauth is a collection of POSIX-C functions implementing the OAuth Core RFC 5849 standard. Liboauth provides functions to escape and encode parameters according to OAuth specification and offers high-level functionality to sign requests or verify OAuth signatures as well as perform HTTP requests.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.2 platform.

Package Information

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liboauth Dependencies

Required

cURL-8.9.1

Optional

nss-3.103 and Doxygen-1.12.0 (to build documentation)

Installation of liboauth

Apply a patch for the current version of openssl: 

patch -Np1 -i ../liboauth-1.0.3-openssl-1.1.0-3.patch

Install liboauth by running the following commands: 

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

If you wish to build the documentation (needs Doxygen-1.12.0), issue: 

make dox

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

If you have previously built the documentation, install it by running the following commands as the root user: 

install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/liboauth-1.0.3 &&
cp -rv doc/html/* /usr/share/doc/liboauth-1.0.3

Command Explanations

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

--enable-nss: Use this switch if you want to use Mozilla NSS instead of OpenSSL.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: liboauth.so
Installed Directories: /usr/share/doc/liboauth-1.0.3

Short Descriptions

liboauth.so

provides functions to escape and encode strings according to OAuth specifications and offers high-level functionality built on top to sign requests or verify signatures using either NSS or OpenSSL for calculating the hash/signatures