source: general/genlib/glib2.xml@ 0d7900a

10.0 10.1 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 12.0 12.1 7.10 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.6-blfs 7.6-systemd 7.7 7.8 7.9 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 9.0 9.1 basic bdubbs/svn elogind gnome kde5-13430 kde5-14269 kde5-14686 kea ken/TL2024 ken/inkscape-core-mods ken/tuningfonts krejzi/svn lazarus lxqt nosym perl-modules plabs/newcss plabs/python-mods python3.11 qt5new rahul/power-profiles-daemon renodr/vulkan-addition systemd-11177 systemd-13485 trunk upgradedb xry111/intltool xry111/llvm18 xry111/soup3 xry111/test-20220226 xry111/xf86-video-removal
Last change on this file since 0d7900a was 0d7900a, checked in by Randy McMurchy <randy@…>, 11 years ago

Removed extraneous spaces from blank lines and at the end of lines in the .xml

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@11015 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0
  • Property mode set to 100644
File size: 12.0 KB
Line 
1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6
7 <!ENTITY glib2-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/glib/2.34/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY glib2-download-ftp "&gnome-download-ftp;/glib/2.34/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY glib2-md5sum "a4ca31e258273c3761e3de2edd607661">
10 <!ENTITY glib2-size "6.1 MB">
11 <!ENTITY glib2-buildsize "225 MB">
12 <!ENTITY glib2-time "1.6 SBU (additional 5.0 SBU to run the test suite)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="glib2" xreflabel="GLib-&glib2-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="glib2.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
20 <date>$Date$</date>
21 </sect1info>
22
23 <title>GLib-&glib2-version;</title>
24
25 <indexterm zone="glib2">
26 <primary sortas="a-GLib2">GLib2</primary>
27 </indexterm>
28
29 <sect2 role="package">
30 <title>Introduction to GLib</title>
31
32 <para>
33 The <application>GLib</application> package contains a low-level
34 libraries useful for providing data structure handling for C, portability
35 wrappers and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an
36 event loop, threads, dynamic loading and an object system.
37 </para>
38
39 &lfs72_checked;
40
41 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
42 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
43 <listitem>
44 <para>
45 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-http;"/>
46 </para>
47 </listitem>
48 <listitem>
49 <para>
50 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-ftp;"/>
51 </para>
52 </listitem>
53 <listitem>
54 <para>
55 Download MD5 sum: &glib2-md5sum;
56 </para>
57 </listitem>
58 <listitem>
59 <para>
60 Download size: &glib2-size;
61 </para>
62 </listitem>
63 <listitem>
64 <para>
65 Estimated disk space required: &glib2-buildsize;
66 </para>
67 </listitem>
68 <listitem>
69 <para>
70 Estimated build time: &glib2-time;
71 </para>
72 </listitem>
73 </itemizedlist>
74
75 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GLib Dependencies</bridgehead>
76
77 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
78 <para role="required">
79 <xref linkend="libffi"/>,
80 <xref linkend="pkgconfig"/> and
81 <xref linkend="python2"/>
82 </para>
83
84 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
85 <para role="recommended">
86 <xref linkend="pcre"/> (built with Unicode properties)
87 </para>
88
89 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
90 <para role="optional">
91 <xref linkend="attr"/>,
92 <xref linkend="dbus"/> (required to run the tests) and
93 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/>
94 </para>
95
96 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Additional Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
97 <para role="optional">
98 Quoted directly from the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file;
99 <quote>Some of the mimetype-related functionality in GIO requires the
100 <command>update-mime-database</command> and
101 <command>update-desktop-database</command> utilities</quote>,
102 which are part of
103 <xref linkend="shared-mime-info"/> and
104 <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>, respectively.
105 </para>
106
107 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
108 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/glib2"/>
109 </para>
110 </sect2>
111
112 <sect2 role="installation">
113 <title>Installation of GLib</title>
114
115 <para>
116 Install <application>GLib</application> by running the following
117 commands:
118 </para>
119
120<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-pcre=system &amp;&amp;
121make</userinput></screen>
122
123 <para>
124 The <application>GLib</application> test suite requires
125 <application>desktop-file-utils</application> in order to run. However,
126 <application>desktop-file-utils</application> requires
127 <application>GLib</application> in order to compile; therefore, you must
128 first install <application>GLib</application> and then run the test
129 suite.
130 </para>
131
132 <para>
133 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
134 </para>
135
136<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
137
138 <para>
139 You should now install <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> and proceed to
140 run the test suite.
141 </para>
142
143 <para>
144 To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
145 </para>
146
147 </sect2>
148
149 <sect2 role="commands">
150 <title>Command Explanations</title>
151
152 <para>
153 <parameter>--with-pcre=system</parameter>: This switch causes the
154 build to use a system-provided version of the
155 <application>PCRE</application> library instead of an internal
156 version.
157 </para>
158
159 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
160 href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
161
162 </sect2>
163
164 <sect2 role="content">
165 <title>Contents</title>
166
167 <segmentedlist>
168 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
169 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
170 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
171
172 <seglistitem>
173 <seg>
174 gdbus, gdbus-codegen, gio-querymodules,
175 glib-compile-resources, glib-compile-schemas,
176 glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums,
177 gobject-query, gresource, gsettings, gtester
178 and gtester-report
179 </seg>
180 <seg>
181 libgio-2.0.so, libglib-2.0.so, libgmodule-2.0.so,
182 libgobject-2.0.so and libgthread-2.0.so
183 </seg>
184 <seg>
185 /usr/include/gio-unix-2.0,
186 /usr/include/glib-2.0,
187 /usr/lib/gdbus-2.0,
188 /usr/lib/gio,
189 /usr/lib/glib-2.0,
190 /usr/share/glib-2.0,
191 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gio,
192 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib and
193 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gobject
194 </seg>
195 </seglistitem>
196 </segmentedlist>
197
198 <variablelist>
199 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
200 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
201 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
202
203 <varlistentry id="gdbus">
204 <term><command>gdbus</command></term>
205 <listitem>
206 <para>
207 is a simple tool used for working with
208 <application>D-Bus</application> objects.
209 </para>
210 <indexterm zone="glib2 gdbus">
211 <primary sortas="b-gdbus">gdbus</primary>
212 </indexterm>
213 </listitem>
214 </varlistentry>
215
216 <varlistentry id="gdbus-codegen">
217 <term><command>gdbus-codegen</command></term>
218 <listitem>
219 <para>
220 is used to generate code and/or documentation for one or
221 more <application>D-Bus</application> interfaces.
222 </para>
223 <indexterm zone="glib2 gdbus-codegen">
224 <primary sortas="b-gdbus-codegen">gdbus-codegen</primary>
225 </indexterm>
226 </listitem>
227 </varlistentry>
228
229 <varlistentry id="gio-querymodules">
230 <term><command>gio-querymodules</command></term>
231 <listitem>
232 <para>
233 is used to create a giomodule.cache file in the listed directories.
234 This file lists the implemented extension points for each module
235 that has been found.
236 </para>
237 <indexterm zone="glib2 gio-querymodules">
238 <primary sortas="b-gio-querymodules">gio-querymodules</primary>
239 </indexterm>
240 </listitem>
241 </varlistentry>
242
243 <varlistentry id="glib-compile-resources">
244 <term><command>glib-compile-resources</command></term>
245 <listitem>
246 <para>
247 is used to read the resource description from file and
248 the files that it references to create a binary resource
249 bundle that is suitable for use with the GResource API.
250 </para>
251 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-compile-resources">
252 <primary sortas="b-glib-compile-resources">glib-compile-resources</primary>
253 </indexterm>
254 </listitem>
255 </varlistentry>
256
257 <varlistentry id="glib-compile-schemas">
258 <term><command>glib-compile-schemas</command></term>
259 <listitem>
260 <para>
261 is used to compile all the GSettings XML schema files
262 in directory into a binary file with the name gschemas.compiled
263 that can be used by GSettings.
264 </para>
265 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-compile-schemas">
266 <primary sortas="b-glib-compile-resources">glib-compile-schemas</primary>
267 </indexterm>
268 </listitem>
269 </varlistentry>
270
271 <varlistentry id="glib-genmarshal">
272 <term><command>glib-genmarshal</command></term>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>
275 is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib closures.
276 </para>
277 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-genmarshal">
278 <primary sortas="b-glib-genmarshal">glib-genmarshal</primary>
279 </indexterm>
280 </listitem>
281 </varlistentry>
282
283 <varlistentry id="glib-gettextize">
284 <term><command>glib-gettextize</command></term>
285 <listitem>
286 <para>
287 is a variant of the <application>gettext</application>
288 internationalization utility.
289 </para>
290 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-gettextize">
291 <primary sortas="b-glib-gettextize">glib-gettextize</primary>
292 </indexterm>
293 </listitem>
294 </varlistentry>
295
296 <varlistentry id="glib-mkenums">
297 <term><command>glib-mkenums</command></term>
298 <listitem>
299 <para>
300 is a C language enum description generation utility.
301 </para>
302 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-mkenums">
303 <primary sortas="b-glib-mkenums">glib-mkenums</primary>
304 </indexterm>
305 </listitem>
306 </varlistentry>
307
308 <varlistentry id="gobject-query">
309 <term><command>gobject-query</command></term>
310 <listitem>
311 <para>
312 is a small utility that draws a tree of types.
313 </para>
314 <indexterm zone="glib2 gobject-query">
315 <primary sortas="b-gobject-query">gobject-query</primary>
316 </indexterm>
317 </listitem>
318 </varlistentry>
319
320 <varlistentry id="gresource">
321 <term><command>gresource</command></term>
322 <listitem>
323 <para>
324 offers a simple commandline interface to GResource.
325 </para>
326 <indexterm zone="glib2 gresource">
327 <primary sortas="b-gresource">gresource</primary>
328 </indexterm>
329 </listitem>
330 </varlistentry>
331
332 <varlistentry id="gsettings">
333 <term><command>gsettings</command></term>
334 <listitem>
335 <para>
336 offers a simple commandline interface to GSettings.
337 </para>
338 <indexterm zone="glib2 gsettings">
339 <primary sortas="b-gsettings">gsettings</primary>
340 </indexterm>
341 </listitem>
342 </varlistentry>
343
344 <varlistentry id="gtester">
345 <term><command>gtester</command></term>
346 <listitem>
347 <para>
348 is a test running utility.
349 </para>
350 <indexterm zone="glib2 gtester">
351 <primary sortas="b-gtester">gtester</primary>
352 </indexterm>
353 </listitem>
354 </varlistentry>
355
356 <varlistentry id="gtester-report">
357 <term><command>gtester-report</command></term>
358 <listitem>
359 <para>
360 is a test report formatting utility.
361 </para>
362 <indexterm zone="glib2 gtester-report">
363 <primary sortas="b-gtester-report">gtester-report</primary>
364 </indexterm>
365 </listitem>
366 </varlistentry>
367
368 <varlistentry id="GLib-libraries">
369 <term>GLib libraries</term>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>
372 contain a low-level core libraries for the
373 <application>GIMP</application> Toolkit.
374 </para>
375 <indexterm zone="glib2 GLib-libraries">
376 <primary sortas="c-GLib-libraries">Glib libraries</primary>
377 </indexterm>
378 </listitem>
379 </varlistentry>
380
381 </variablelist>
382
383 </sect2>
384
385</sect1>
Note: See TracBrowser for help on using the repository browser.