source: gnome/platform/gcr.xml@ 8a71122

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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gcr-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/gcr/&gcr-minor;/gcr-&gcr-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY gcr-download-ftp  "&gnome-download-ftp;/gcr/&gcr-minor;/gcr-&gcr-version;.tar.xz">
  <!ENTITY gcr-md5sum        "c1e98af977236255006e11e8f8cfbaca">
  <!ENTITY gcr-size          "1008 KB">
  <!ENTITY gcr-buildsize     "33 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY gcr-time          "0.2 SBU (with tests; both using parallelism=4)">
]>

<sect1 id="gcr" xreflabel="Gcr-&gcr-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gcr.html"?>


  <title>Gcr-&gcr-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gcr">
    <primary sortas="a-Gcr">Gcr</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Gcr</title>

    <para>
      The <application>Gcr</application> package contains libraries used
      for displaying certificates and accessing key stores. It also
      provides the viewer for crypto files on the
      <application>GNOME</application> Desktop.
    </para>

    &lfs112_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gcr-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gcr-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &gcr-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &gcr-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &gcr-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &gcr-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Gcr Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="glib2"/>,
      <xref linkend="libgcrypt"/>, and
      <xref linkend="p11-kit"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="gnupg2"/>,
      <xref linkend="gobject-introspection"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk3"/>,
      <xref linkend="libsecret"/>,
      <xref linkend="libxslt"/>, and
      <xref linkend="vala"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="gi-docgen"/> and
      <xref linkend="valgrind"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gcr"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Gcr</title>

    <!--
    <caution>
      <para>
        If you are upgrading from a version of gcr prior to 3.36.0, you must
        run the <filename>remove-la-files.sh</filename> script from the
        <xref linkend="la-files"/> after installing gcr.
      </para>
    </caution>
    -->

<!--
    <para>
      First apply a fix for building with newer versions of
      <application>meson</application>:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>find . -name meson.build | xargs sed -i /packages.\*deps/d</userinput></screen>
-->

    <para>
      Install <application>Gcr</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>sed -i 's:"/desktop:"/org:' schema/*.xml &amp;&amp;

mkdir build &amp;&amp;
cd    build &amp;&amp;

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dgtk_doc=false .. &amp;&amp;
ninja</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>ninja test</command>.
      The tests must be run from an X Terminal or similar. <!-- One test,
      "test-openssl 3", is known to fail. -->
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>ninja install</userinput></screen>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/meson-buildtype-release.xml"/>

<!--
    <para>
      <command>sed ... schema/*.xml</command>:  This command fixes a
      deprecated entry in the schema template.
    </para>

    <para>
      <command>sed ... ui/meson.build</command>:  This command fixes a
      problem when building with meson-0.59.0.
    </para>
-->

    <!--
    <para>
      <!- - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gcr/-/merge_requests/52/ - ->
      <command>sed ... gck/gck-slot.c</command>:  This command fixes a bug
      (usage of uninitialized value) identified by upstream.
    </para>
    -->

    <para>
      <option>-Dgtk=false</option>: Use this switch if you
      haven't installed <xref linkend="gtk3"/>. Note that
      <application>gcr-viewer</application> will not be installed
      if this is passed to meson.
    </para>

    <para>
      <option>-Dgtk_doc=true</option>: Use this switch if you wish
      to generate the API reference documentation. Note that you must
      have <xref linkend='gi-docgen'/> installed, and use the following
      command to fix an issue in the build system before running
      <command>cd build</command>:
    </para>

<screen role='nodump'><userinput>sed -e "/install_dir/s@,\$@ / 'gcr-&gcr-version;'&amp;@" \
    -e "/fatal-warnings/d" -i docs/*/meson.build</userinput></screen>


    <!--<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
    href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>-->

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Program</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          gcr-viewer
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libgck-1.so, libgcr-base-3.so and libgcr-ui-3.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/gck-1,
          /usr/include/gcr-3, and
          /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/{gcr,gck}
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gcr-viewer">
        <term><command>gcr-viewer</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to view certificates and key files
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gcr gcr-viewer">
            <primary sortas="b-gcr-viewer">gcr-viewer</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libgck-1">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libgck-1.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains GObject bindings for PKCS#11
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gcr libgck-1">
            <primary sortas="c-libgck-1">libgck-1.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>