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Last change on this file since 09794600 was 09794600, checked in by Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>, 4 years ago

Mention parallelism issue for libical

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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 libical-download-http "https://github.com/libical/libical/releases/download/v&libical-version;/libical-&libical-version;.tar.gz">
8 <!ENTITY libical-download-ftp " ">
9 <!ENTITY libical-md5sum "41bd1f1fcdcb4779cea478bb55cf07bf">
10 <!ENTITY libical-size "864 KB">
11 <!ENTITY libical-buildsize "21 MB (with tests)">
12 <!ENTITY libical-time "0.2 SBU (Using parallelism=4; with tests)">
13]>
14
15<sect1 id="libical" xreflabel="libical-&libical-version;">
16 <?dbhtml filename="libical.html"?>
17
18 <sect1info>
19 <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
20 <date>$Date$</date>
21 </sect1info>
22
23 <title>libical-&libical-version;</title>
24
25 <indexterm zone="libical">
26 <primary sortas="a-libical">libical</primary>
27 </indexterm>
28
29 <sect2 role="package">
30 <title>Introduction to libical</title>
31
32 <para>
33 The <application>libical</application> package contains an implementation
34 of the iCalendar protocols and data formats.
35 </para>
36
37 &lfs91_checked;
38
39 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
40
41 <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
42 <listitem>
43 <para>
44 Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&libical-download-http;"/>
45 </para>
46 </listitem>
47 <listitem>
48 <para>
49 Download (FTP): <ulink url="&libical-download-ftp;"/>
50 </para>
51 </listitem>
52 <listitem>
53 <para>
54 Download MD5 sum: &libical-md5sum;
55 </para>
56 </listitem>
57 <listitem>
58 <para>
59 Download size: &libical-size;
60 </para>
61 </listitem>
62 <listitem>
63 <para>
64 Estimated disk space required: &libical-buildsize;
65 </para>
66 </listitem>
67 <listitem>
68 <para>
69 Estimated build time: &libical-time;
70 </para>
71 </listitem>
72 </itemizedlist>
73
74 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">libical Dependencies</bridgehead>
75
76 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
77 <para role="required">
78 <xref linkend="cmake"/>
79 </para>
80
81 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
82 <para role="recommended">
83 <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/> and
84 <xref linkend="vala"/>(both required for Gnome)
85 </para>
86
87 <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
88 <para role="optional">
89 <xref linkend="db"/>,
90 <xref linkend="doxygen"/> (for the API documentation),
91 <xref linkend="icu"/>
92 </para>
93
94 <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
95 <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/libical"/>
96 </para>
97 </sect2>
98
99 <sect2 role="installation">
100 <title>Installation of libical</title>
101
102 <para>
103 Install <application>libical</application> by running the
104 following commands:
105 </para>
106
107 <!-- Needs confirmation, but I got a race condition at -j8,
108 -j1 allowed the build to pass. Pierre 2019-12-06
109 I always have it actually. Hence the entity.-->
110 &parallel_issues;
111<screen><userinput>mkdir build &amp;&amp;
112cd build &amp;&amp;
113
114cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
115 -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
116 -DSHARED_ONLY=yes \
117 -DICAL_BUILD_DOCS=false \
118 -DGOBJECT_INTROSPECTION=true \
119 -DICAL_GLIB_VAPI=true \
120 .. &amp;&amp;
121make</userinput></screen>
122<!-- DEVS: the ICAL_BUILD_DOCS=false switch is needed because gtk-doc-1.30 is
123 broken. Unfortunately, it also prevents running make docs. When gtk-doc
124 is fixed, remove the switch and uncomment this.
125 <para>
126 If you have <xref linkend="doxygen"/> installed and wish to build the API
127 documentation, issue:
128 </para>
129
130<screen remap="doc"><userinput>make docs</userinput></screen>
131-->
132 <para>
133 To test the results, issue: <command>make test</command>.
134 <!-- One test, timezones, is known to fail on SysV systems. -->
135 <!-- On systemd, we symlink the current timezone to
136 /etc/localtime, which is what libical expects.
137 This is now done on SysV as well.-->
138 </para>
139
140 <para>
141 Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
142 </para>
143
144<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
145<!-- see above:
146 <para>
147 If you have built the API documentation, install by issuing, as
148 <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
149 </para>
150
151<screen role="root"
152 remap="doc"><userinput>install -vdm755 /usr/share/doc/libical-&libical-version;/html &amp;&amp;
153cp -vr apidocs/html/* /usr/share/doc/libical-&libical-version;/html</userinput></screen>
154-->
155 </sect2>
156
157 <sect2 role="commands">
158 <title>Command Explanations</title>
159
160 <para>
161 <parameter>-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release</parameter>: This switch is used
162 to apply higher level of the compiler optimizations.
163 </para>
164
165 <para>
166 <parameter>-DSHARED_ONLY=yes</parameter>: This switch is used
167 in order to only build the shared libraries.
168 </para>
169
170 <para>
171 <parameter>-DICAL_BUILD_DOCS=false</parameter>: This switch prevents
172 building the <application>GTK</application> documentation, because
173 gtk-doc-1.30 is broken. Unfortunately, it also prevents building the
174 API documentation.
175 </para>
176
177 <para>
178 <parameter>-DGOBJECT_INTROSPECTION=true</parameter>: This switch is used
179 to generate GObject metadata bindings.
180 </para>
181
182 <para>
183 <parameter>-DICAL_GLIB_VAPI=true</parameter>: This switch is used
184 in order to build bindings for <xref linkend="vala"/>.
185 </para>
186
187 <para>
188 <option>-DUSE_BUILTIN_TZDATA=yes</option>: This switch is used
189 in order to build using your own timezone data.
190 </para>
191
192 <!-- No CMake equivalents
193 <para>
194 <parameter>- -enable-cxx</parameter>: This switch enables
195 <application>libical</application> C++ library.
196 </para>
197
198 <para>
199 <option>- -enable-python</option>: This switch enables
200 <application>libical</application> Python bindings.
201 </para> -->
202
203 </sect2>
204
205 <sect2 role="content">
206 <title>Contents</title>
207
208 <segmentedlist>
209 <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
210 <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
211 <segtitle>Installed Directory</segtitle>
212
213 <seglistitem>
214 <seg>
215 None
216 </seg>
217 <seg>
218 libical_cxx.so, libical.so, libicalss_cxx.so, libicalss.so,
219 and libicalvcal.so
220 </seg>
221 <seg>
222 /usr/include/libical, /usr/lib/cmake/LibIcal and
223 /usr/share/doc/libical-&libical-version;/html
224 </seg>
225 </seglistitem>
226 </segmentedlist>
227
228 <variablelist>
229 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
230 <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
231 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
232
233 <varlistentry id="libical-lib">
234 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libical.so</filename></term>
235 <listitem>
236 <para>
237 contains the <application>libical</application> API
238 functions.
239 </para>
240 <indexterm zone="libical libical-lib">
241 <primary sortas="c-libical">libical.so</primary>
242 </indexterm>
243 </listitem>
244 </varlistentry>
245
246 <varlistentry id="libical_cxx-lib">
247 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libical_cxx.so</filename></term>
248 <listitem>
249 <para>
250 contains the <application>libical</application> C++ bindings.
251 </para>
252 <indexterm zone="libical libical_cxx-lib">
253 <primary sortas="c-libical_cxx">libical_cxx.so</primary>
254 </indexterm>
255 </listitem>
256 </varlistentry>
257
258 <varlistentry id="libicalss">
259 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libicalss.so</filename></term>
260 <listitem>
261 <para>
262 is a library that allows you to store iCal component data
263 to disk in a variety of ways.
264 </para>
265 <indexterm zone="libical libicalss">
266 <primary sortas="c-libicalss">libicalss.so</primary>
267 </indexterm>
268 </listitem>
269 </varlistentry>
270
271 <varlistentry id="libicalss_cxx">
272 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libicalss_cxx.so</filename></term>
273 <listitem>
274 <para>
275 contains the <application>libicalss</application> C++
276 bindings.
277 </para>
278 <indexterm zone="libical libicalss_cxx">
279 <primary sortas="c-libicalss_cxx">libicalss_cxx.so</primary>
280 </indexterm>
281 </listitem>
282 </varlistentry>
283
284 <varlistentry id="libicalvcal">
285 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libicalvcal.so</filename></term>
286 <listitem>
287 <para>
288 is a vCard/vCalendar C interface.
289 </para>
290 <indexterm zone="libical libicalvcal">
291 <primary sortas="c-libicalvcal">libicalvcal.so</primary>
292 </indexterm>
293 </listitem>
294 </varlistentry>
295
296 </variablelist>
297
298 </sect2>
299
300</sect1>
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