Highlight is an utility that converts source code to formatted text with syntax highlighting.
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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
Download (HTTP): http://www.andre-simon.de/zip/highlight-4.10.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 187a16136f7aa4310e57eecb994b7ac4
Download size: 1.4 MB
Estimated disk space required: 24 MB (with gui)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with gui)
(Qt-5.15.12 or qt-alternate-5.15.12) (to build the GUI front-end)
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-4.10/ 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-4.10/ install
To install the GUI program, run the following command as the root user:
make install-gui
doc_dir=/usr/share/doc/highlight-4.10/: 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.