%general-entities; ]> GLib2 The GLib package contains low-level libraries 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. &lfs120_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &glib2-md5sum; Download size: &glib2-size; Estimated disk space required: &glib2-buildsize; Estimated build time: &glib2-time; Additional Downloads Optional patch: GLib Dependencies Recommended and Optional (for some tests), and bindfs (both needed for one test), (for bindings), , , (to build API documentation), (for some tests, but this is a circular dependency), and sysprof Additional Runtime Dependencies (should be installed before gtk+, atk, etc.) Quoted directly from the INSTALL file: Some of the mimetype-related functionality in GIO requires the update-mime-database and update-desktop-database utilities, which are part of and , respectively. These two utilities are also needed for some tests. If desired, apply the optional patch. In many cases, applications that use this library, either directly or indirectly via other libraries such as , output numerous warnings when run from the command line. This patch enables the use of an environment variable, GLIB_LOG_LEVEL, that suppresses unwanted messages. The value of the variable is a digit that corresponds to: 1 Alert 2 Critical 3 Error 4 Warning 5 Notice For instance export GLIB_LOG_LEVEL=4 will skip output of Warning and Notice messages (and Info/Debug messages if they are turned on). If GLIB_LOG_LEVEL is not defined, normal message output will not be affected. patch -Np1 -i ../glib-skip_warnings-1.patch If a previous version of glib is installed, move the headers out of the way so that later packages do not encounter conflicts: if [ -e /usr/include/glib-2.0 ]; then rm -rf /usr/include/glib-2.0.old && mv -vf /usr/include/glib-2.0{,.old} fi Install GLib by running the following commands: mkdir build && cd build && meson setup .. \ --prefix=/usr \ --buildtype=release \ -Dman=true && ninja If is installed, the above command may indicate several (about 33) errors that start with "Error: no ID for constraint linkend:" when generating the man pages. These are harmless. The GLib test suite requires desktop-file-utils for some tests. However, desktop-file-utils requires GLib in order to compile; therefore, you must first install GLib and then run the test suite. Now, as the root user: ninja install && mkdir -p /usr/share/doc/glib-&glib2-version; && cp -r ../docs/reference/{gio,glib,gobject} /usr/share/doc/glib-&glib2-version; You should now install and and proceed to run the test suite. Do not run the test suite as &root; or some tests will fail unexpectedly and leave some non-FHS-compliant directories in the /usr hierarchy. To test the results, after having installed the package, issue: LC_ALL=C ninja test as a non-&root; user. -Dman=true: This switch causes the build to create and install the package man pages. -Dgtk_doc=true: This switch causes the build to create and install the API documentation. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories gapplication, gdbus, gdbus-codegen, gio, gio-querymodules, glib-compile-resources, glib-compile-schemas, glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums, gobject-query, gresource, gsettings, gtester, and gtester-report libgio-2.0.so, libglib-2.0.so, libgmodule-2.0.so, libgobject-2.0.so, and libgthread-2.0.so /usr/include/gio-unix-2.0, /usr/include/glib-2.0, /usr/lib/gio, /usr/lib/glib-2.0, /usr/share/glib-2.0, /usr/share/doc/{glib-2.0,glib-&glib2-version;}, and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{gio,glib,gobject} (optional) Short Descriptions gapplication can be used to start applications and to send messages to already-running instances of other applications application gdbus is a simple tool used for working with D-Bus objects gdbus gdbus-codegen is used to generate code and/or documentation for one or more D-Bus interfaces gdbus-codegen gio is a utility that makes many GIO features available from the command line gio gio-querymodules is used to create a giomodule.cache file in the listed directories. This file lists the implemented extension points for each module that has been found gio-querymodules glib-compile-resources is used to read the resource description from a file and the files that it references to create a binary resource bundle that is suitable for use with the GResource API glib-compile-resources glib-compile-schemas is used to compile all the GSettings XML schema files in a directory into a binary file with the name gschemas.compiled that can be used by GSettings glib-compile-schemas glib-genmarshal is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib closures glib-genmarshal glib-gettextize is a variant of the gettext internationalization utility glib-gettextize glib-mkenums is a C language enum description generation utility glib-mkenums gobject-query is a small utility that draws a tree of types gobject-query gresource offers a simple command line interface to GResource gresource gsettings offers a simple command line interface to GSettings gsettings gtester is a test running utility gtester gtester-report is a test report formatting utility gtester-report GLib libraries contain low-level core libraries for the GIMP Toolkit Glib libraries