source: general/genlib/glib.xml@ 9f12e36

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<!ENTITY GLib-download-http "http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/gimp/gtk/v1.2/glib-&GLib-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY GLib-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/glib-&GLib-version;.tar.gz">
<!ENTITY GLib-md5sum "6fe30dad87c77b91b632def29dd69ef9">
<!ENTITY GLib-size "412 KB">
<!ENTITY GLib-buildsize "6.4 MB">
<!ENTITY GLib-time "0.19 SBU">
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<sect1 id="GLib" xreflabel="GLib-&GLib-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="Glib.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>GLib-&GLib-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="GLib">
    <primary sortas="a-GLib-1">GLib-1</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>The <application>glib</application> package contains a low-level core
    library. This is useful for providing data structure handling for C,
    portability wrappers and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event
    loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.</para>

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

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
      <listitem>
        <para>Required patch: <ulink
        url="&patch-root;/glib-&GLib-version;-gcc34-1.patch"/></para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
    <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/glib"/></para>

  </sect2>

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

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

<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glib-&GLib-version;-gcc34-1.patch &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr &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 &amp;&amp;
chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0.0.10</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

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

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>glib-config</seg>
        <seg>libglib.{so,a}, libgmodule.{so,a} and libgthread.{so,a}</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/glib-1.2 and /usr/lib/glib</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="glib-config">
        <term><command>glib-config</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a tool that is used by <command>configure</command> scripts
          to determine the compiler and linker flags that should be used to compile and
          link programs that use <application>GLib</application>.</para>
          <indexterm zone="GLib glib-config">
            <primary sortas="b-glib-config">glib-config</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libglib">
        <term><filename class='libraryfile'>libglib.{so,a}</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>libraries contain a low-level core library for the
          <application>GIMP</application> Toolkit.</para>
          <indexterm zone="GLib libglib">
            <primary sortas="c-libglib">libglib.{so,a}</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>