Introduction to libgcrypt
The libgcrypt package contains a
general purpose crypto library based on the code used in
GnuPG. The library provides a high
level interface to cryptographic building blocks using an
extendable and flexible API.
Note
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages
properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent
stable versions of the book.
Package Information
libgcrypt Dependencies
Required
libgpg-error-1.47
Optional
Pth-2.0.7 and
texlive-20230313 (or install-tl-unx)
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgcrypt
Installation of libgcrypt
Install libgcrypt by running the
following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make &&
make -C doc html &&
makeinfo --html --no-split -o doc/gcrypt_nochunks.html doc/gcrypt.texi &&
makeinfo --plaintext -o doc/gcrypt.txt doc/gcrypt.texi
To test the results, issue: make
check.
Now, as the root
user:
make install &&
install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.10.2 &&
install -v -m644 README doc/{README.apichanges,fips*,libgcrypt*} \
/usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.10.2 &&
install -v -dm755 /usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.10.2/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/gcrypt.html/* \
/usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.10.2/html &&
install -v -m644 doc/gcrypt_nochunks.html \
/usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.10.2 &&
install -v -m644 doc/gcrypt.{txt,texi} \
/usr/share/doc/libgcrypt-1.10.2