Changeset a9c0e8d for general/genlib/glib2.xml

Timestamp:

10/15/2017 09:22:27 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

f2e7e668

Parents:

d6aa5ce

Message:

Add an optional patch to glib to allow user supression of
unwanted warning messages.

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@19330 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

File:

• general/genlib/glib2.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

general/genlib/glib2.xml

@@ -73 +73 @@
     </itemizedlist>
 
+    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
+    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Optional patch:
+          <ulink url="&patch-root;/glib-&glib2-version;-skip_warnings-1.patch"/>
+        </para>
+      </listitem>
+    </itemizedlist>
+
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">GLib Dependencies</bridgehead>
-
 <!--
     <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
@@ -118 +127 @@
   <sect2 role="installation">
     <title>Installation of GLib</title>
+
+    <para>If desired, appy the optional patch. In many cases, applications that
+    use this library, either  directly or indirectly via other libraries such
+    as <xref linkend="gtk3"/>, output numerous warnings when run from the
+    command line.  This patch enables the use of an environment variable,
+    GLIB_LOG_LEVEL, that supresses unwanted messages. The value of the
+    variable is a digit that corresponds to:</para>
+
+    <simplelist>
+      <member>1  Alert</member>
+      <member>2  Critical</member>
+      <member>3  Error</member>
+      <member>4  Warning</member>
+      <member>5  Notice</member>
+    </simplelist>
+
+    <para>For instance GLIB_LOG_LEVEL=4 will skip output of Warning and 
+    Notice messages (and Info/Debug messages if they are turned on).
+    If GLIB_LOG_LEVEL is not defined, normal message output will not
+    be affected.</para>
+
+<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../glib-&glib2-version;-skip_warnings-1.patch</userinput></screen>
 
     <para>