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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/&glib2-minor;/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.xz">
8 <!ENTITY glib2-download-ftp "&gnome-download-ftp;/glib/&glib2-minor;/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.xz">
9 <!ENTITY glib2-md5sum "fb613d21fabce3d3d8520f37d12bd473">
10 <!ENTITY glib2-size "4.6 MB">
11 <!ENTITY glib2-buildsize "131 MB (add 6 MB for tests)">
12 <!ENTITY glib2-time "0.5 SBU (add 0.6 SBU for tests; both using parallelism=4)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="glib2" xreflabel="GLib-&glib2-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="glib2.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <date>$Date$</date>
20 </sect1info>
21
22 <title>GLib-&glib2-version;</title>
23
24 <indexterm zone="glib2">
25 <primary sortas="a-GLib2">GLib2</primary>
26 </indexterm>
27
28 <sect2 role="package">
29 <title>Introduction to GLib</title>
30
31 <para>
32 The <application>GLib</application> package contains low-level
33 libraries useful for providing data structure handling for C, portability
34 wrappers and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an
35 event loop, threads, dynamic loading and an object system.
36 </para>
37
38 &lfs110a_checked;
39
40 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
41 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
42 <listitem>
43 <para>
44 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-http;"/>
45 </para>
46 </listitem>
47 <listitem>
48 <para>
49 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-ftp;"/>
50 </para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>
54 Download MD5 sum: &glib2-md5sum;
55 </para>
56 </listitem>
57 <listitem>
58 <para>
59 Download size: &glib2-size;
60 </para>
61 </listitem>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>
64 Estimated disk space required: &glib2-buildsize;
65 </para>
66 </listitem>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>
69 Estimated build time: &glib2-time;
70 </para>
71 </listitem>
72 </itemizedlist>
73
74 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
75 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
76 <listitem>
77 <para>
78 Optional patch:
79 <ulink url="&patch-root;/glib-&glib2-version;-skip_warnings-1.patch"/>
80 </para>
81 </listitem>
82 </itemizedlist>
83
84 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GLib Dependencies</bridgehead>
85
86 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
87 <para role="recommended">
88 <xref linkend="libxslt"/> and
89 <xref linkend="pcre"/> (built with Unicode properties)
90 </para>
91
92 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
93 <para role="optional">
94 <xref linkend="dbus"/> and
95 <ulink url="https://bindfs.org/">bindfs</ulink>
96 (both may be used in some tests),
97 <xref linkend="gdb"/> (for bindings),
98 <xref linkend="DocBook"/>,
99 <xref linkend="docbook-xsl"/>,
100 <xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> (to build API documentation),
101 <xref linkend="glib-networking"/> (for some tests, but this is a circular
102 dependency), and
103 <xref linkend="sysprof"/>
104 </para>
105
106 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Additional Runtime Dependencies</bridgehead>
107 <para role="recommended">
108 <xref role="runtime" linkend="gobject-introspection"/>
109 (should be installed before gtk+, atk, etc.)
110 </para>
111 <para role="optional">
112 Quoted directly from the <filename>INSTALL</filename> file:
113 <quote>Some of the mimetype-related functionality in GIO requires the
114 <command>update-mime-database</command> and
115 <command>update-desktop-database</command> utilities</quote>,
116 which are part of
117 <xref role="runtime" linkend="shared-mime-info"/> and
118 <xref role="runtime" linkend="desktop-file-utils"/>, respectively.
119 These two utilities are also needed for some tests.
120 </para>
121
122 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
123 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/glib2"/>
124 </para>
125 </sect2>
126
127 <sect2 role="installation">
128 <title>Installation of GLib</title>
129
130 <para>
131 If desired, apply the optional patch. In many cases, applications that
132 use this library, either directly or indirectly via other libraries such
133 as <xref linkend="gtk3"/>, output numerous warnings when run from the
134 command line. This patch enables the use of an environment variable,
135 <envar>GLIB_LOG_LEVEL</envar>, that supresses unwanted messages. The
136 value of the variable is a digit that corresponds to:
137 </para>
138
139 <simplelist>
140 <member>1 Alert</member>
141 <member>2 Critical</member>
142 <member>3 Error</member>
143 <member>4 Warning</member>
144 <member>5 Notice</member>
145 </simplelist>
146
147 <para>
148 For instance <userinput>export GLIB_LOG_LEVEL=4</userinput> will skip
149 output of Warning and Notice messages (and Info/Debug messages if they
150 are turned on). If <envar>GLIB_LOG_LEVEL</envar> is not defined, normal
151 message output will not be affected.
152 </para>
153
154<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glib-&glib2-version;-skip_warnings-1.patch</userinput></screen>
155
156 <warning>
157 <para>
158 If a previous version of glib is installed, move the headers out of the
159 way so that later packages do not encounter conflicts:
160 </para>
161
162<screen role="root"><userinput remap="pre">if [ -e /usr/include/glib-2.0 ]; then
163 rm -rf /usr/include/glib-2.0.old &amp;&amp;
164 mv -vf /usr/include/glib-2.0{,.old}
165fi</userinput></screen>
166
167 </warning>
168
169 <para>
170 Install <application>GLib</application> by running the following
171 commands:
172 </para>
173
174<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
175cd build &amp;&amp;
176
177meson --prefix=/usr \
178 --buildtype=release \
179 -Dman=true \
180 .. &amp;&amp;
181ninja</userinput></screen>
182
183 <note><para>
184 If <xref linkend="libxslt"/> is installed, the above command may
185 indicate several (about 33) errors that start with "Error: no ID for
186 constraint linkend:" when generating the man pages. These are harmless.
187 </para></note>
188
189 <para>
190 The <application>GLib</application> test suite requires
191 <application>desktop-file-utils</application> for some tests. However,
192 <application>desktop-file-utils</application> requires
193 <application>GLib</application> in order to compile; therefore, you must
194 first install <application>GLib</application> and then run the test
195 suite.
196 </para>
197
198 <para>
199 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
200 </para>
201
202<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install &amp;&amp;
203
204mkdir -p /usr/share/doc/glib-&glib2-version; &amp;&amp;
205cp -r ../docs/reference/{NEWS,gio,glib,gobject} /usr/share/doc/glib-&glib2-version;</userinput></screen>
206
207 <para>
208 You should now install <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> and
209 <xref linkend="shared-mime-info"/> and proceed to
210 run the test suite.
211 </para>
212
213 <para>
214 To test the results, after having installed the package, issue:
215 <command>ninja test</command>. One test named
216 <literal>gio / file</literal> is known to fail if the test is run as
217 the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user.
218 <!-- glib issue #1954: -->
219 <!-- One test named gdbus-server-auth sometimes fails.-->
220 <!-- SysV has the symlink now, so gdatetime no longer fails.-->
221 <!-- Needs /etc/localtime to be a symbolic link. In addition
222 the link must be to some place like /usr/share/zoneinfo/...
223
224 This can be overcome if the line below in glib/tests/gdatetime.c
225 is removed or commented out.
226 g_assert_true (*g_time_zone_get_identifier (tz) != '/');
227
228 NOTE: systemd implements this as a hard requirement. -->
229 <!-- with 2.60.4 on systemd, all tests pass. -->
230 <!-- with 2.64.1 on sysV, all tests pass. -->
231 <!-- with 2.70.1 on sysV, all tests pass. -->
232 </para>
233
234 <para>
235 Finally, if this is a reinstall from glib2-2.64.x or earlier, remove
236 (as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user) an
237 obsolete header file that interferes with some packages:
238 </para>
239
240<screen role="nodump"><userinput>rm -f /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gurifuncs.h</userinput></screen>
241
242 </sect2>
243
244 <sect2 role="commands">
245 <title>Command Explanations</title>
246
247 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
248 href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>
249
250 <para>
251 <parameter>-Dman=true</parameter>: This switch causes the
252 build to create and install the package man pages.
253 </para>
254
255 <para>
256 <option>-Dgtk_doc=true</option>: This switch causes the
257 build to create and install the API documentation.
258 </para>
259
260 </sect2>
261
262 <sect2 role="content">
263 <title>Contents</title>
264
265 <segmentedlist>
266 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
267 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
268 <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
269
270 <seglistitem>
271 <seg>
272 gapplication, gdbus, gdbus-codegen,
273 gio, gio-querymodules,
274 glib-compile-resources, glib-compile-schemas,
275 glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize,
276 glib-mkenums, gobject-query,
277 gresource, gsettings,
278 gtester, and gtester-report
279 </seg>
280 <seg>
281 libgio-2.0.so,
282 libglib-2.0.so,
283 libgmodule-2.0.so,
284 libgobject-2.0.so, and
285 libgthread-2.0.so
286 </seg>
287 <seg>
288 /usr/include/gio-unix-2.0,
289 /usr/include/glib-2.0,
290 /usr/lib/glib-2.0,
291 /usr/share/glib-2.0,
292 /usr/share/doc/glib-&glib2-version;, and
293 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{gio,glib,gobject} (optional)
294 </seg>
295 </seglistitem>
296 </segmentedlist>
297
298 <variablelist>
299 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
300 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
301 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
302
303 <varlistentry id="gapplication">
304 <term><command>gapplication</command></term>
305 <listitem>
306 <para>
307 can be used to start applications and to send
308 messages to already-running instances of other applications
309 </para>
310 <indexterm zone="glib2 gapplication">
311 <primary sortas="b-gapplication">application</primary>
312 </indexterm>
313 </listitem>
314 </varlistentry>
315 <varlistentry id="gdbus">
316 <term><command>gdbus</command></term>
317 <listitem>
318 <para>
319 is a simple tool used for working with
320 <application>D-Bus</application> objects
321 </para>
322 <indexterm zone="glib2 gdbus">
323 <primary sortas="b-gdbus">gdbus</primary>
324 </indexterm>
325 </listitem>
326 </varlistentry>
327
328 <varlistentry id="gdbus-codegen">
329 <term><command>gdbus-codegen</command></term>
330 <listitem>
331 <para>
332 is used to generate code and/or documentation for one or
333 more <application>D-Bus</application> interfaces
334 </para>
335 <indexterm zone="glib2 gdbus-codegen">
336 <primary sortas="b-gdbus-codegen">gdbus-codegen</primary>
337 </indexterm>
338 </listitem>
339 </varlistentry>
340
341 <varlistentry id="gio">
342 <term><command>gio</command></term>
343 <listitem>
344 <para>
345 is a utility that makes many <application>GIO</application>
346 features available from the command line
347 </para>
348 <indexterm zone="glib2 gio">
349 <primary sortas="b-gio">gio</primary>
350 </indexterm>
351 </listitem>
352 </varlistentry>
353
354 <varlistentry id="gio-querymodules">
355 <term><command>gio-querymodules</command></term>
356 <listitem>
357 <para>
358 is used to create a <filename>giomodule.cache</filename> file in
359 the listed directories. This file lists the implemented extension
360 points for each module that has been found
361 </para>
362 <indexterm zone="glib2 gio-querymodules">
363 <primary sortas="b-gio-querymodules">gio-querymodules</primary>
364 </indexterm>
365 </listitem>
366 </varlistentry>
367
368 <varlistentry id="glib-compile-resources">
369 <term><command>glib-compile-resources</command></term>
370 <listitem>
371 <para>
372 is used to read the resource description from a file and
373 the files that it references to create a binary resource
374 bundle that is suitable for use with the GResource API
375 </para>
376 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-compile-resources">
377 <primary sortas="b-glib-compile-resources">glib-compile-resources</primary>
378 </indexterm>
379 </listitem>
380 </varlistentry>
381
382 <varlistentry id="glib-compile-schemas">
383 <term><command>glib-compile-schemas</command></term>
384 <listitem>
385 <para>
386 is used to compile all the GSettings XML schema files
387 in a directory into a binary file with the name
388 <filename>gschemas.compiled</filename> that can be used by GSettings
389 </para>
390 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-compile-schemas">
391 <primary sortas="b-glib-compile-resources">glib-compile-schemas</primary>
392 </indexterm>
393 </listitem>
394 </varlistentry>
395
396 <varlistentry id="glib-genmarshal">
397 <term><command>glib-genmarshal</command></term>
398 <listitem>
399 <para>
400 is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib closures
401 </para>
402 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-genmarshal">
403 <primary sortas="b-glib-genmarshal">glib-genmarshal</primary>
404 </indexterm>
405 </listitem>
406 </varlistentry>
407
408 <varlistentry id="glib-gettextize">
409 <term><command>glib-gettextize</command></term>
410 <listitem>
411 <para>
412 is a variant of the <application>gettext</application>
413 internationalization utility
414 </para>
415 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-gettextize">
416 <primary sortas="b-glib-gettextize">glib-gettextize</primary>
417 </indexterm>
418 </listitem>
419 </varlistentry>
420
421 <varlistentry id="glib-mkenums">
422 <term><command>glib-mkenums</command></term>
423 <listitem>
424 <para>
425 is a C language enum description generation utility
426 </para>
427 <indexterm zone="glib2 glib-mkenums">
428 <primary sortas="b-glib-mkenums">glib-mkenums</primary>
429 </indexterm>
430 </listitem>
431 </varlistentry>
432
433 <varlistentry id="gobject-query">
434 <term><command>gobject-query</command></term>
435 <listitem>
436 <para>
437 is a small utility that draws a tree of types
438 </para>
439 <indexterm zone="glib2 gobject-query">
440 <primary sortas="b-gobject-query">gobject-query</primary>
441 </indexterm>
442 </listitem>
443 </varlistentry>
444
445 <varlistentry id="gresource">
446 <term><command>gresource</command></term>
447 <listitem>
448 <para>
449 offers a simple command line interface to GResource
450 </para>
451 <indexterm zone="glib2 gresource">
452 <primary sortas="b-gresource">gresource</primary>
453 </indexterm>
454 </listitem>
455 </varlistentry>
456
457 <varlistentry id="gsettings">
458 <term><command>gsettings</command></term>
459 <listitem>
460 <para>
461 offers a simple command line interface to GSettings
462 </para>
463 <indexterm zone="glib2 gsettings">
464 <primary sortas="b-gsettings">gsettings</primary>
465 </indexterm>
466 </listitem>
467 </varlistentry>
468
469 <varlistentry id="gtester">
470 <term><command>gtester</command></term>
471 <listitem>
472 <para>
473 is a test running utility
474 </para>
475 <indexterm zone="glib2 gtester">
476 <primary sortas="b-gtester">gtester</primary>
477 </indexterm>
478 </listitem>
479 </varlistentry>
480
481 <varlistentry id="gtester-report">
482 <term><command>gtester-report</command></term>
483 <listitem>
484 <para>
485 is a test report formatting utility
486 </para>
487 <indexterm zone="glib2 gtester-report">
488 <primary sortas="b-gtester-report">gtester-report</primary>
489 </indexterm>
490 </listitem>
491 </varlistentry>
492
493 <varlistentry id="GLib-libraries">
494 <term>GLib libraries</term>
495 <listitem>
496 <para>
497 contain low-level core libraries for the
498 <application>GIMP</application> Toolkit
499 </para>
500 <indexterm zone="glib2 GLib-libraries">
501 <primary sortas="c-GLib-libraries">Glib libraries</primary>
502 </indexterm>
503 </listitem>
504 </varlistentry>
505
506 </variablelist>
507
508 </sect2>
509
510</sect1>
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