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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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| 7 | <!ENTITY glib2-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/glib/2.32/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.xz">
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| 8 | <!ENTITY glib2-download-ftp "&gnome-download-ftp;/glib/2.32/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.xz">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY glib2-md5sum "c5fa76fbf9184d20dfb04af66b598190">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY glib2-size "5.9 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY glib2-buildsize "160 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY glib2-time "1.0 SBU (additional 4.0 SBU to run the test suite)">
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| 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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| 15 | <sect1 id="glib2" xreflabel="GLib-&glib2-version;">
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| 16 | <?dbhtml filename="glib2.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>GLib-&glib2-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="glib2">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-GLib2">GLib2</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to GLib</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>The <application>GLib</application> package contains a low-level core
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| 33 | library. This is useful for providing data structure handling for C,
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| 34 | portability wrappers and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an
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| 35 | event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | &lfs71_checked;
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| 38 |
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| 39 | <!-- Compiled against PCRE, Python, and desktop-file-utils.
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| 40 | 1 test failed (regex) -->
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 43 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 44 | <listitem>
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| 45 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-http;"/></para>
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| 46 | </listitem>
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| 47 | <listitem>
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| 48 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 49 | </listitem>
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| 50 | <listitem>
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| 51 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &glib2-md5sum;</para>
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| 52 | </listitem>
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| 53 | <listitem>
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| 54 | <para>Download size: &glib2-size;</para>
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| 55 | </listitem>
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| 56 | <listitem>
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| 57 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &glib2-buildsize;</para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | <listitem>
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| 60 | <para>Estimated build time: &glib2-time;</para>
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| 61 | </listitem>
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| 62 | </itemizedlist>
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| 63 |
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| 64 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GLib Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 65 |
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| 66 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 67 | <para role="required"><xref linkend="libffi"/> and <xref linkend="python2"/>
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| 68 | </para>
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| 69 |
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| 70 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 71 | <para role="recommended"><xref linkend="pcre"/>
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| 72 | (built with unicode properties)</para>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 75 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="attr"/>, <xref linkend="dbus"/>
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| 76 | (required to run the tests), <xref linkend="gamin"/> and
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| 77 | <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/></para>
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| 78 |
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| 79 | <!-- Couldn't find this
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| 80 | Re: It's giofam module. It may be unnecesary since there is inotify support now.
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| 81 | -->
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| 82 |
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| 83 | <para><application>Gamin</application> requires
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| 84 | <application>GLib</application> in order to compile; therefore, you must
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| 85 | first install <application>GLib</application>, then compile
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| 86 | <application>Gamin</application>, and recompile
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| 87 | <application>GLib</application> against it.</para>
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| 88 |
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| 89 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Additional Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 90 | <para role="optional">Quoted directly from the <filename>INSTALL</filename>
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| 91 | file; <quote>Some of the mimetype-related functionality in GIO requires the
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| 92 | <command>update-mime-database</command> and
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| 93 | <command>update-desktop-database</command> utilities</quote>, which are part of
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| 94 | <xref linkend="shared-mime-info"/> and
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| 95 | <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>, respectively.</para>
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| 96 |
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| 97 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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| 98 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/glib2"/></para>
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| 99 |
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| 100 | </sect2>
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| 101 |
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| 102 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 103 | <title>Installation of GLib</title>
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| 104 |
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| 105 | <para>Install <application>GLib</application> by running the following
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| 106 | commands:</para>
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| 107 |
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| 108 | <!-- This should be discussed as the instructions in the tarball give
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| 109 | many reasons why the internal PCRE should be used -->
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| 110 |
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| 111 | <!-- Re: PCRE 8.30 is bundled, and BLFS has same version -->
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| 112 |
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| 113 | <screen><userinput>PCRE_LIBS=-lpcre PCRE_CFLAGS=" " \
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| 114 | LIBFFI_LIBS=-lffi LIBFFI_CFLAGS=" " \
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| 115 | ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --with-pcre=system &&
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| 116 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <para>The <application>GLib</application> test suite requires
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| 119 | <application>desktop-file-utils</application> in order to run. However,
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| 120 | <application>desktop-file-utils</application> requires
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| 121 | <application>GLib</application> in order to compile; therefore, you must
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| 122 | first install <application>GLib</application> and then run the test
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| 123 | suite.</para>
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| 124 |
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| 125 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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| 128 | ln -v -sfn ../../lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h /usr/include/glib-2.0/glibconfig.h</userinput></screen>
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| 129 |
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| 130 | <para>You should now install <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> and proceed to
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| 131 | run the test suite.</para>
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| 132 |
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| 133 | <para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | </sect2>
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| 136 |
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| 137 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 138 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 139 |
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| 140 | <para>PCRE_* and LIBFFI_*: <application>Glib</application> is a prerequsite
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| 141 | for <application>pkg_config</application>, but it wants to use
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| 142 | <application>pkg_config</application> during the build process. These
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| 143 | environment variables work around not having
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| 144 | <application>pkg_config</application> available.</para>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <para><command>ln -v -sfn ... glibconfig.h</command>: Place a link to an
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| 147 | architecture dependent header file where programs can find it.</para>
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| 148 |
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| 149 | <para><parameter>--with-pcre=system</parameter>: This parameter causes the
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| 150 | build to use a system-provided version of the
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| 151 | <application>PCRE</application> library instead of an internal
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| 152 | version.</para>
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| 153 |
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| 154 | <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
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| 155 | href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
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| 156 |
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| 157 | </sect2>
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| 158 |
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| 159 | <!-- This has never caused any problems for me. A doc hint could help me
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| 160 | understand why this was here in first place.
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| 161 |
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| 162 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 163 | <title>Configuring GLib</title>
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| 164 |
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| 165 | <sect3>
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| 166 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 167 |
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| 168 | <para>By default, <application>GLib</application> assumes that all
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| 169 | filenames are in the UTF-8 charset. See the <xref
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| 170 | linkend="locale-wrong-filename-encoding"/> section of the <xref
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| 171 | linkend="locale-issues"/> page for more details on this kind of issue. In
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| 172 | order to tell <application>GLib</application> and applications that use
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| 173 | it that filenames are in the default locale encoding, set the variable
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| 174 | <envar>G_FILENAME_ENCODING</envar> to the value "@locale". As the
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| 175 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 176 |
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| 177 | <screen role="root"><userinput>cat > /etc/profile.d/glib2-locale.sh << "EOF"
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| 178 | <literal># Use the current locale charset for filenames
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| 179 | # in applications using GLib
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| 180 | export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale</literal>
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| 181 | EOF</userinput></screen>
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| 182 |
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| 183 | </sect3>
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| 184 |
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| 185 | </sect2>
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| 186 | -->
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| 187 |
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| 188 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 189 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 190 |
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| 191 | <segmentedlist>
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| 192 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 193 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 194 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 195 |
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| 196 | <seglistitem>
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| 197 | <seg>
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| 198 | gdbus, gdbus-codegen, gio-querymodules,
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| 199 | glib-compile-resources, glib-compile-schemas,
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| 200 | glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums,
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| 201 | gobject-query, gresource, gsettings, gtester
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| 202 | and gtester-report
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| 203 | </seg>
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| 204 |
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| 205 | <seg>
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| 206 | libgio-2.0.so, libglib-2.0.so, libgmodule-2.0.so,
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| 207 | libgobject-2.0.so, libgthread-2.0.so and libgiofam.so
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| 208 | </seg>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | <seg>
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| 211 | /usr/include/{gio-unix-2.0/gio,glib-2.0/{gio,glib,gobject}},
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| 212 | /usr/lib/{gdbus-2.0/codegen,gio/modules,glib-2.0/include},
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| 213 | /usr/share/glib-2.0/{gdb,gettext/po} and
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| 214 | /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{gio,glib,gobject}
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| 215 | </seg>
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| 216 | </seglistitem>
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| 217 | </segmentedlist>
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| 218 |
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| 219 | <variablelist>
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| 220 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 221 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 222 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <varlistentry id="gdbus">
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| 225 | <term><command>gdbus</command></term>
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| 226 | <listitem>
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| 227 | <para>is a simple tool for working with D-Bus objects.</para>
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| 228 | <indexterm zone="glib2 gdbus">
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| 229 | <primary sortas="b-gdbus">gdbus</primary>
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| 230 | </indexterm>
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| 231 | </listitem>
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| 232 | </varlistentry>
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| 233 |
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| 234 | <varlistentry id="gdbus-codegen">
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| 235 | <term><command>gdbus-codegen</command></term>
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| 236 | <listitem>
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| 237 | <para>is used to generate code and/or documentation for one or
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| 238 | more D-Bus interfaces.</para>
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| 239 | <indexterm zone="glib2 gdbus-codegen">
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| 240 | <primary sortas="b-gdbus-codegen">gdbus-codegen</primary>
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| 241 | </indexterm>
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| 242 | </listitem>
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| 243 | </varlistentry>
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| 244 |
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| 245 | <varlistentry id="gio-querymodules">
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| 246 | <term><command>gio-querymodules</command></term>
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| 247 | <listitem>
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| 248 | <para>is used to create a giomodule.cache file in the listed directories.
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| 249 | This file lists the implemented extension points for each module that has
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| 250 | been found.</para>
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| 251 | <indexterm zone="glib2 gio-querymodules">
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| 252 | <primary sortas="b-gio-querymodules">gio-querymodules</primary>
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| 253 | </indexterm>
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| 254 | </listitem>
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| 255 | </varlistentry>
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| 256 |
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| 257 | <varlistentry id="glib-compile-resources">
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| 258 | <term><command>glib-compile-resources</command></term>
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| 259 | <listitem>
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| 260 | <para>is used to read the resource description from file and
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| 261 | the files that it references to create a binary resource
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| 262 | bundle that is suitable for use with the GResource API.</para>
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| 263 | <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-compile-resources">
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| 264 | <primary sortas="b-glib-compile-resources">glib-compile-resources</primary>
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| 265 | </indexterm>
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| 266 | </listitem>
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| 267 | </varlistentry>
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| 268 |
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| 269 | <varlistentry id="glib-compile-schemas">
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| 270 | <term><command>glib-compile-schemas</command></term>
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| 271 | <listitem>
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| 272 | <para>is used to compile all the GSettings XML schema files
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| 273 | in directory into a binary file with the name gschemas.compiled
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| 274 | that can be used by GSettings.</para>
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| 275 | <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-compile-schemas">
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| 276 | <primary sortas="b-glib-compile-resources">glib-compile-schemas</primary>
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| 277 | </indexterm>
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| 278 | </listitem>
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| 279 | </varlistentry>
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| 280 |
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| 281 | <varlistentry id="glib-genmarshal">
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| 282 | <term><command>glib-genmarshal</command></term>
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| 283 | <listitem>
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| 284 | <para>is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib
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| 285 | closures.</para>
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| 286 | <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-genmarshal">
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| 287 | <primary sortas="b-glib-genmarshal">glib-genmarshal</primary>
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| 288 | </indexterm>
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| 289 | </listitem>
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| 290 | </varlistentry>
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| 291 |
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| 292 | <varlistentry id="glib-gettextize">
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| 293 | <term><command>glib-gettextize</command></term>
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| 294 | <listitem>
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| 295 | <para>is a variant of the <application>gettext</application>
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| 296 | internationalization utility.</para>
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| 297 | <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-gettextize">
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| 298 | <primary sortas="b-glib-gettextize">glib-gettextize</primary>
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| 299 | </indexterm>
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| 300 | </listitem>
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| 301 | </varlistentry>
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| 302 |
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| 303 | <varlistentry id="glib-mkenums">
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| 304 | <term><command>glib-mkenums</command></term>
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| 305 | <listitem>
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| 306 | <para>is a C language enum description generation utility.</para>
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| 307 | <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-mkenums">
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| 308 | <primary sortas="b-glib-mkenums">glib-mkenums</primary>
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| 309 | </indexterm>
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| 310 | </listitem>
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| 311 | </varlistentry>
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| 312 |
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| 313 | <varlistentry id="gobject-query">
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| 314 | <term><command>gobject-query</command></term>
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| 315 | <listitem>
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| 316 | <para>is a small utility that draws a tree of types.</para>
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| 317 | <indexterm zone="glib2 gobject-query">
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| 318 | <primary sortas="b-gobject-query">gobject-query</primary>
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| 319 | </indexterm>
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| 320 | </listitem>
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| 321 | </varlistentry>
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| 322 |
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| 323 | <varlistentry id="gresource">
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| 324 | <term><command>gresource</command></term>
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| 325 | <listitem>
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| 326 | <para>offers a simple commandline interface to GResource.</para>
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| 327 | <indexterm zone="glib2 gresource">
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| 328 | <primary sortas="b-gresource">gresource</primary>
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| 329 | </indexterm>
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| 330 | </listitem>
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| 331 | </varlistentry>
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| 332 |
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| 333 | <varlistentry id="gsettings">
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| 334 | <term><command>gsettings</command></term>
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| 335 | <listitem>
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| 336 | <para>offers a simple commandline interface to GSettings.</para>
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| 337 | <indexterm zone="glib2 gsettings">
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| 338 | <primary sortas="b-gsettings">gsettings</primary>
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| 339 | </indexterm>
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| 340 | </listitem>
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| 341 | </varlistentry>
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| 342 |
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| 343 | <varlistentry id="gtester">
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| 344 | <term><command>gtester</command></term>
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| 345 | <listitem>
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| 346 | <para>is a test running utility.</para>
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| 347 | <indexterm zone="glib2 gtester">
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| 348 | <primary sortas="b-gtester">gtester</primary>
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| 349 | </indexterm>
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| 350 | </listitem>
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| 351 | </varlistentry>
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| 352 |
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| 353 | <varlistentry id="gtester-report">
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| 354 | <term><command>gtester-report</command></term>
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| 355 | <listitem>
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| 356 | <para>is a test report formatting utility.</para>
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| 357 | <indexterm zone="glib2 gtester-report">
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| 358 | <primary sortas="b-gtester-report">gtester-report</primary>
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| 359 | </indexterm>
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| 360 | </listitem>
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| 361 | </varlistentry>
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| 362 |
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| 363 | <varlistentry id="GLib-libraries">
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| 364 | <term>GLib libraries</term>
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| 365 | <listitem>
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| 366 | <para>contain a low-level core library for the
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| 367 | <application>GIMP</application> Toolkit.</para>
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| 368 | <indexterm zone="glib2 GLib-libraries">
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| 369 | <primary sortas="c-GLib-libraries">Glib libraries</primary>
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| 370 | </indexterm>
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| 371 | </listitem>
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| 372 | </varlistentry>
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| 373 |
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| 374 | </variablelist>
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| 375 |
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| 376 | </sect2>
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| 377 |
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