source: general/genlib/gamin.xml@ 060409a

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gamin-download-http "http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/sources/gamin-&gamin-version;.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY gamin-download-ftp "">
  <!ENTITY gamin-md5sum "1db7eef6d73fba604efcc370352ad2c4">
  <!ENTITY gamin-size "373 KB">
  <!ENTITY gamin-buildsize "4.0 MB">
  <!ENTITY gamin-time "0.08 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="gamin" xreflabel="Gamin-&gamin-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gamin.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy: randy $</othername>
    <date>$Date: 2005-07-27 11:35:22 -0500 (Wed, 27 Jul 2005) $</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Gamin-&gamin-version;</title>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Gamin</title>

    <para>The <application>Gamin</application> package contains a
    File Alteration Monitor which is useful for notifying applications of
    changes to the file system. Gamin is compatible with <ulink
        url="http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/">FAM</ulink>.</para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gamin-download-http;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gamin-download-ftp;"/></para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download MD5 sum: &gamin-md5sum;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Download size: &gamin-size;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated disk space required: &gamin-buildsize;</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Estimated build time: &gamin-time;</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Gamin Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="glib2"/></para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> (for building API documentation),
        <xref linkend="doxygen"/> (for building documentation),
        <xref linkend="python"/></para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Gamin</title>

    <para>Install <application>Gamin</application> by running the
    following commands:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/sbin &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>

    <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Gamin</title>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>No configuration is generally required and the default options
      should work for most users. See
      <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/config.html"/> for
      details.</para>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gam_server</seg>
        <seg>libfam.[so,a], libgamin.[so,a]</seg>
        <seg>None</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

    <varlistentry id="gam_server">
      <term><command>gam_server</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>is the file alteration monitor daemon that is started on demand
        for each user.</para>
        <indexterm zone="gamin gam_server">
          <primary sortas="b-gam_server">gam_server</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="libgamin">
      <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libgamin.[so,a]</filename></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>contains functions that support the file allocation monitor.</para>
        <indexterm zone="gamin libgamin">
          <primary sortas="c-libgamin">libgamin.[so,a]</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    <varlistentry id="libfam">
      <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libfam.[so,a]</filename></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>contains functions that provide compatibility with FAM.</para>
        <indexterm zone="gamin libfam">
          <primary sortas="c-libfam">libfam.[so,a]</primary>
        </indexterm>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>