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This is ripped from the Linux kernel tarball, but applies also to
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the OpenSC project.
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Linux kernel coding style
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This is a short document describing the preferred coding style for the
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linux kernel. Coding style is very personal, and I won't _force_ my
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views on anybody, but this is what goes for anything that I have to be
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able to maintain, and I'd prefer it for most other things too. Please
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at least consider the points made here.
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First off, I'd suggest printing out a copy of the GNU coding standards,
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and NOT read it. Burn them, it's a great symbolic gesture.
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Anyway, here goes:
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Chapter 1: Indentation
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Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters.
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There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!)
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characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to
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be 3.
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Rationale: The whole idea behind indentation is to clearly define where
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a block of control starts and ends. Especially when you've been looking
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at your screen for 20 straight hours, you'll find it a lot easier to see
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how the indentation works if you have large indentations.
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Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes
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the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a
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80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need
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more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should fix
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your program.
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In short, 8-char indents make things easier to read, and have the added
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benefit of warning you when you're nesting your functions too deep.
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Heed that warning.
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Chapter 2: Placing Braces
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The other issue that always comes up in C styling is the placement of
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braces. Unlike the indent size, there are few technical reasons to
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choose one placement strategy over the other, but the preferred way, as
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shown to us by the prophets Kernighan and Ritchie, is to put the opening
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brace last on the line, and put the closing brace first, thusly:
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if (x is true) {
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we do y
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}
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However, there is one special case, namely functions: they have the
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opening brace at the beginning of the next line, thus:
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int function(int x)
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{
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body of function
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}
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Heretic people all over the world have claimed that this inconsistency
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is ... well ... inconsistent, but all right-thinking people know that
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(a) K&R are _right_ and (b) K&R are right. Besides, functions are
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special anyway (you can't nest them in C).
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Note that the closing brace is empty on a line of its own, _except_ in
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the cases where it is followed by a continuation of the same statement,
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ie a "while" in a do-statement or an "else" in an if-statement, like
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this:
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do {
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body of do-loop
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} while (condition);
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and
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if (x == y) {
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..
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} else if (x > y) {
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...
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} else {
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....
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}
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Rationale: K&R.
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Also, note that this brace-placement also minimizes the number of empty
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(or almost empty) lines, without any loss of readability. Thus, as the
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supply of new-lines on your screen is not a renewable resource (think
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25-line terminal screens here), you have more empty lines to put
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comments on.
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Chapter 3: Naming
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C is a Spartan language, and so should your naming be. Unlike Modula-2
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and Pascal programmers, C programmers do not use cute names like
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ThisVariableIsATemporaryCounter. A C programmer would call that
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variable "tmp", which is much easier to write, and not the least more
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difficult to understand.
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HOWEVER, while mixed-case names are frowned upon, descriptive names for
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global variables are a must. To call a global function "foo" is a
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shooting offense.
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GLOBAL variables (to be used only if you _really_ need them) need to
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have descriptive names, as do global functions. If you have a function
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that counts the number of active users, you should call that
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"count_active_users()" or similar, you should _not_ call it "cntusr()".
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Encoding the type of a function into the name (so-called Hungarian
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notation) is brain damaged - the compiler knows the types anyway and can
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check those, and it only confuses the programmer. No wonder MicroSoft
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makes buggy programs.
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LOCAL variable names should be short, and to the point. If you have
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some random integer loop counter, it should probably be called "i".
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Calling it "loop_counter" is non-productive, if there is no chance of it
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being mis-understood. Similarly, "tmp" can be just about any type of
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variable that is used to hold a temporary value.
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If you are afraid to mix up your local variable names, you have another
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problem, which is called the function-growth-hormone-imbalance syndrome.
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See next chapter.
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Chapter 4: Functions
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Functions should be short and sweet, and do just one thing. They should
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fit on one or two screenfuls of text (the ISO/ANSI screen size is 80x24,
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as we all know), and do one thing and do that well.
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The maximum length of a function is inversely proportional to the
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complexity and indentation level of that function. So, if you have a
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conceptually simple function that is just one long (but simple)
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case-statement, where you have to do lots of small things for a lot of
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different cases, it's OK to have a longer function.
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However, if you have a complex function, and you suspect that a
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less-than-gifted first-year high-school student might not even
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understand what the function is all about, you should adhere to the
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maximum limits all the more closely. Use helper functions with
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descriptive names (you can ask the compiler to in-line them if you think
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it's performance-critical, and it will probably do a better job of it
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that you would have done).
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Another measure of the function is the number of local variables. They
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shouldn't exceed 5-10, or you're doing something wrong. Re-think the
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function, and split it into smaller pieces. A human brain can
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generally easily keep track of about 7 different things, anything more
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and it gets confused. You know you're brilliant, but maybe you'd like
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to understand what you did 2 weeks from now.
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Chapter 5: Commenting
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Comments are good, but there is also a danger of over-commenting. NEVER
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try to explain HOW your code works in a comment: it's much better to
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write the code so that the _working_ is obvious, and it's a waste of
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time to explain badly written code.
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Generally, you want your comments to tell WHAT your code does, not HOW.
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Also, try to avoid putting comments inside a function body: if the
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function is so complex that you need to separately comment parts of it,
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you should probably go back to chapter 4 for a while. You can make
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small comments to note or warn about something particularly clever (or
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ugly), but try to avoid excess. Instead, put the comments at the head
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of the function, telling people what it does, and possibly WHY it does
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it.
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Chapter 6: You've made a mess of it
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That's OK, we all do. You've probably been told by your long-time Unix
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user helper that "GNU emacs" automatically formats the C sources for
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you, and you've noticed that yes, it does do that, but the defaults it
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uses are less than desirable (in fact, they are worse than random
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typing - a infinite number of monkeys typing into GNU emacs would never
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make a good program).
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So, you can either get rid of GNU emacs, or change it to use saner
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values. To do the latter, you can stick the following in your .emacs file:
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(defun linux-c-mode ()
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"C mode with adjusted defaults for use with the Linux kernel."
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(interactive)
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(c-mode)
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(c-set-style "K&R")
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(setq c-basic-offset 8))
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This will define the M-x linux-c-mode command. When hacking on a
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module, if you put the string -*- linux-c -*- somewhere on the first
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two lines, this mode will be automatically invoked. Also, you may want
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to add
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(setq auto-mode-alist (cons '("/usr/src/linux.*/.*\\.[ch]$" . linux-c-mode)
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auto-mode-alist))
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to your .emacs file if you want to have linux-c-mode switched on
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automagically when you edit source files under /usr/src/linux.
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But even if you fail in getting emacs to do sane formatting, not
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everything is lost: use "indent".
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Now, again, GNU indent has the same brain dead settings that GNU emacs
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has, which is why you need to give it a few command line options.
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However, that's not too bad, because even the makers of GNU indent
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recognize the authority of K&R (the GNU people aren't evil, they are
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just severely misguided in this matter), so you just give indent the
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options "-kr -i8" (stands for "K&R, 8 character indents").
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"indent" has a lot of options, and especially when it comes to comment
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re-formatting you may want to take a look at the manual page. But
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remember: "indent" is not a fix for bad programming.
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INSTALL
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Basic Installation
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==================
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These are generic installation instructions.
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The `configure' shell script attempts to guess correct values for
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various system-dependent variables used during compilation. It uses
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those values to create a `Makefile' in each directory of the package.
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It may also create one or more `.h' files containing system-dependent
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definitions. Finally, it creates a shell script `config.status' that
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you can run in the future to recreate the current configuration, a file
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`config.cache' that saves the results of its tests to speed up
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reconfiguring, and a file `config.log' containing compiler output
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(useful mainly for debugging `configure').
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If you need to do unusual things to compile the package, please try
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to figure out how `configure' could check whether to do them, and mail
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diffs or instructions to the address given in the `README' so they can
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be considered for the next release. If at some point `config.cache'
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contains results you don't want to keep, you may remove or edit it.
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The file `configure.in' is used to create `configure' by a program
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called `autoconf'. You only need `configure.in' if you want to change
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it or regenerate `configure' using a newer version of `autoconf'.
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The simplest way to compile this package is:
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1. `cd' to the directory containing the package's source code and type
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`./configure' to configure the package for your system. If you're
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using `csh' on an old version of System V, you might need to type
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`sh ./configure' instead to prevent `csh' from trying to execute
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`configure' itself.
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Running `configure' takes awhile. While running, it prints some
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messages telling which features it is checking for.
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2. Type `make' to compile the package.
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3. Optionally, type `make check' to run any self-tests that come with
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the package.
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4. Type `make install' to install the programs and any data files and
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documentation.
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5. You can remove the program binaries and object files from the
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source code directory by typing `make clean'. To also remove the
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files that `configure' created (so you can compile the package for
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a different kind of computer), type `make distclean'. There is
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also a `make maintainer-clean' target, but that is intended mainly
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for the package's developers. If you use it, you may have to get
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all sorts of other programs in order to regenerate files that came
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with the distribution.
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Compilers and Options
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=====================
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Some systems require unusual options for compilation or linking that
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the `configure' script does not know about. You can give `configure'
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initial values for variables by setting them in the environment. Using
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a Bourne-compatible shell, you can do that on the command line like
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this:
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CC=c89 CFLAGS=-O2 LIBS=-lposix ./configure
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Or on systems that have the `env' program, you can do it like this:
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env CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include LDFLAGS=-s ./configure
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Compiling For Multiple Architectures
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====================================
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You can compile the package for more than one kind of computer at the
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same time, by placing the object files for each architecture in their
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own directory. To do this, you must use a version of `make' that
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supports the `VPATH' variable, such as GNU `make'. `cd' to the
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directory where you want the object files and executables to go and run
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the `configure' script. `configure' automatically checks for the
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source code in the directory that `configure' is in and in `..'.
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If you have to use a `make' that does not supports the `VPATH'
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variable, you have to compile the package for one architecture at a time
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in the source code directory. After you have installed the package for
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one architecture, use `make distclean' before reconfiguring for another
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architecture.
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Installation Names
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==================
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By default, `make install' will install the package's files in
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`/usr/local/bin', `/usr/local/man', etc. You can specify an
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installation prefix other than `/usr/local' by giving `configure' the
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option `--prefix=PATH'.
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You can specify separate installation prefixes for
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architecture-specific files and architecture-independent files. If you
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give `configure' the option `--exec-prefix=PATH', the package will use
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PATH as the prefix for installing programs and libraries.
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Documentation and other data files will still use the regular prefix.
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In addition, if you use an unusual directory layout you can give
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options like `--bindir=PATH' to specify different values for particular
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kinds of files. Run `configure --help' for a list of the directories
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you can set and what kinds of files go in them.
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If the package supports it, you can cause programs to be installed
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with an extra prefix or suffix on their names by giving `configure' the
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option `--program-prefix=PREFIX' or `--program-suffix=SUFFIX'.
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Optional Features
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=================
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Some packages pay attention to `--enable-FEATURE' options to
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`configure', where FEATURE indicates an optional part of the package.
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They may also pay attention to `--with-PACKAGE' options, where PACKAGE
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is something like `gnu-as' or `x' (for the X Window System). The
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`README' should mention any `--enable-' and `--with-' options that the
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package recognizes.
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For packages that use the X Window System, `configure' can usually
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find the X include and library files automatically, but if it doesn't,
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you can use the `configure' options `--x-includes=DIR' and
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`--x-libraries=DIR' to specify their locations.
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Specifying the System Type
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==========================
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There may be some features `configure' can not figure out
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automatically, but needs to determine by the type of host the package
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will run on. Usually `configure' can figure that out, but if it prints
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a message saying it can not guess the host type, give it the
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`--host=TYPE' option. TYPE can either be a short name for the system
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type, such as `sun4', or a canonical name with three fields:
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CPU-COMPANY-SYSTEM
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See the file `config.sub' for the possible values of each field. If
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`config.sub' isn't included in this package, then this package doesn't
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If you are building compiler tools for cross-compiling, you can also
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use the `--target=TYPE' option to select the type of system they will
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produce code for and the `--build=TYPE' option to select the type of
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system on which you are compiling the package.
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Sharing Defaults
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================
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If you want to set default values for `configure' scripts to share,
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you can create a site shell script called `config.site' that gives
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default values for variables like `CC', `cache_file', and `prefix'.
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`configure' looks for `PREFIX/share/config.site' if it exists, then
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`PREFIX/etc/config.site' if it exists. Or, you can set the
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`CONFIG_SITE' environment variable to the location of the site script.
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A warning: not all `configure' scripts look for a site script.
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Operation Controls
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==================
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`configure' recognizes the following options to control how it
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operates.
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`--cache-file=FILE'
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Use and save the results of the tests in FILE instead of
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`./config.cache'. Set FILE to `/dev/null' to disable caching, for
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debugging `configure'.
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`--help'
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Print a summary of the options to `configure', and exit.
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`--quiet'
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`--silent'
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`-q'
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Do not print messages saying which checks are being made. To
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suppress all normal output, redirect it to `/dev/null' (any error
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messages will still be shown).
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`--srcdir=DIR'
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Look for the package's source code in directory DIR. Usually
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`configure' can determine that directory automatically.
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`--version'
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Print the version of Autoconf used to generate the `configure'
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script, and exit.
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`configure' also accepts some other, not widely useful, options.
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Windows
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=======
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If you have Cygwin or Mingw installed (with the necessary packages/libs),
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you should be able to follow the above instructions.
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If you use the MS compiler, you should also install perl. And you have
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DIST_SUBDIRS = . aclocal doc etc man src win32
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EXTRA_DIST = CodingStyle README \
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bootstrap Makefile.mak depcomp \
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New in 0.10.0-rc1; Andreas Jellinghaus
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New in 0.10.0-rc2; 2005-10-24; Andreas Jellinghaus
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* Add more documentation, fix man page installtion.
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* New generic ATR/card matching code with
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* Much improved and unified ATR handling in
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WhatsNew
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What is new, what has changed since the last major release?
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Also see this section for a list of incompatibilities.
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Short list: libopensc is now version 2.0.0, i.e. you need to
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recompile applications using opensc. And all libraries and
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the opensc-pkcs11.so module moved from lib/pkcs11/ or lib/opensc/
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to simply lib/. That fixes a number of problems, but you might
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need to change some configuration.
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OperatingSystems
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What your operating system needs to have for OpenSC to work.
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