LIBH 0.8.2 review

LIBH is a collection of functions for C programming intended to be helpful or handy for C programmers

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 729K Developer: Phil Howard

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LIBH is a collection of functions for C programming intended to be helpful or handy for C programmers.

Many of these functions originated with various programming projects where they were needed. Other functions were then added to fill out the scope of possibilities to make a more complete selection.

LIBH is divided into a number of different logical sections. Each section is described in the columns at the right.

Status:

LIBH is currently only in the alpha development stage. A beta release is expected once the API is stablized.

Installation:

1. Create an empty directory anywhere you like.

2. Change the current directory to be that empty directory.

3. Using a full path (relative or absolute), execute the
"configure" script where you extracted the source, while
the empty directory is the current directory.

This is a big script building a big Makefile so it takes
a while. Typical timings are:
30s on Pentium-III, 800 MHz, Linux 2.4 [pdh]
1m45s on Celeron, 333 MHz, Linux 2.4 [pdh]
2m30s on PPC, Powerbook G3, 333 MHz, Linux 2.4 [pflanze]

You may specify an installation target with the option:
--prefix=/full/path/to/install

If you do not specify an installation target, a default
in /tmp is used with the name of the package, such as:
--prefix=/tmp/libh-${VERSION}

4. Do: make

Typical timings are:
5m on Pentium-III, 800 MHz, gcc 3.2.2, Linux 2.4 [pdh]
14m on Celeron, 333 MHz, gcc 3.2.2, Linux 2.4 [pdh]
13m30s on PPC, Powerbook G3, 333 MHz, gcc 2.95.4, Linux 2.4 [pflanze]

5. If all goes well, then do: make install


There are some other options you may use on configure, such as:

-v
More verbose output during execution of configure.

--source=
Specify the location of the source files if it cannot be
determined from the script name path.

--optimize=
Set the compiler optimization for all compiles.
The default is 2.

--execdynamic
Build all executable programs with dynamic linking to all
libraries (not just system libraries).

--execstatic
Build all executable programs with static linking to all
libraries (not just the libraries built here).

--noarlib
Do not build the static linking object archive library.

--nosolib
Do not build the dynamic linking share object library.

--asm
Produce assembly output as .s files in the same subdirectories
that the .o files are produced in.

What's New in This Release:
Several minor changes were made.