libunistring is a library that provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.
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Download (HTTP): https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-1.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 57dfd9e4eba93913a564aa14eab8052e
Download size: 2.6 MB
Estimated disk space required: 58 MB (add 46 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.6 SBU (add 0.3 SBU for tests; both using parallelism=4)
texlive-20240312 (or install-tl-unx) (to rebuild the documentation)
Install libunistring by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-static \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/libunistring-1.3 && make
To test the results, issue: make check.
Now, as the root
user:
make install
--disable-static
: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.