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<sect1 id="ch-system-glib" role="wrap">
  <?dbhtml filename="glib.html"?>

  <sect1info condition="script">
    <productname>glib</productname>
    <productnumber>&glib-version;</productnumber>
    <address>&glib-url;</address>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Glib-&glib-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib">
    <primary sortas="a-Glib">Glib</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>The GLib package contains a low-level core library. This is useful
    for providing data structure handling for C, portability wrappers and
    interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads,
    dynamic loading, and an object system.</para>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
      <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>&glib-ch6-sbu;</seg>
        <seg>&glib-ch6-du;</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

  </sect2>

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

    <para>Prepare Glib for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="configure">PCRE_LIBS="-L/usr/lib -lpcre" PCRE_CFLAGS="-I/usr/include" ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-pcre=system</userinput></screen>

    <variablelist>
      <title>The meaning of the configure options:</title>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><parameter>--with-pcre=system</parameter></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>This parameter causes the build to use a system-provided
          version of the PCRE library instead of an internal version.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>

    <para>Due to dependencies on additional Perl modules and other packages not yet present
    (e.g. desktop-file-utils and DBus), it is not possible to run Glib's test suite.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-glib" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Glib</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gio-querymodules, glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize,
        glib-mkenums, gobject-query, gtester and gtester-report</seg>
        <seg>libgio-2.0.so, libglib-2.0.so, libgmodule-2.0.so,
        libgobject-2.0.so, and libgthread-2.0.so</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/{gio-unix-2.0/gio,glib-2.0/{gio,glib,gobject}},
             /usr/lib/{gio/modules,glib-2.0/include},
             /usr/share/{gdb/auto-load,glib-2.0/{gdb, gettext/po},gtk-doc/html/{gio,glib,gobject}}</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="gio-querymodules">
        <term><command>gio-querymodules</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib
          closures.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gio-querymodules">
            <primary sortas="b-glib">gio-querymodules</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="glib-gettextize">
        <term><command>glib-gettextize</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a variant of the gettext internationalization
          utility.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib glib-gettextize">
            <primary sortas="b-glib-gettextize">glib-gettextize</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="glib-mkenums">
        <term><command>glib-mkenums</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>is a C language enum description generation utility.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib glib-mkenums">
            <primary sortas="b-glib-mkenums">glib-mkenums</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gobject-query">
        <term><command>gobject-query</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Is a small utility that draws a tree of types.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gobject-query">
            <primary sortas="b-gobject-query">gobject-query</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gtester">
        <term><command>gtester</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Is a test running utility.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gtester">
            <primary sortas="b-gtester">gtester</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gtester-report">
        <term><command>gtester-report</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Is a test report formatting utility.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gtester-report">
            <primary sortas="b-gtester-report">gtester-report</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="glib">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">Glib libraries</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>contain a general purpose low-level core library.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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