source: chapter06/libdbus.xml@ 720f253

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

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

  <title>Libdbus-&dbus-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-libdbus">
    <primary sortas="a-libdbus">Libdbus</primary>
  </indexterm>

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

    <para>Libdbus package provides a library to communicate with
    D-Bus messagebus daemon. It is only installed to satisfy
    circular dependency between Systemd and D-Bus.</para>

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

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

  </sect2>

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

    <note>
      <para><application>Libdbus</application> is part of the D-Bus sources.
      You should first unpack the D-Bus tarball and change to the
      <filename>dbus-&dbus-version;</filename> directory.</para>
    </note>

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

<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --localstatedir=/var</userinput></screen>

    <para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="make">make -C dbus libdbus-1.la</userinput></screen>

    <para>This package does come with a testsuite, but it is not
    possible to run it because only part of the package was
    built.</para>

    <para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">make -C dbus lib_LTLIBRARIES=libdbus-1.la \
     install-libLTLIBRARIES \
     install-dbusincludeHEADERS \
     install-nodist_dbusarchincludeHEADERS
make install-pkgconfigDATA</userinput></screen>

    <para>The shared library needs to be moved to
    <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>, and as a result the
    <filename class="extension">.so</filename> file in
    <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> will need to be recreated:</para>

<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.* /lib
ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so) /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so</userinput></screen>


  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-libdbus" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Libdbus</title>

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

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>none</seg>
        <seg>libdbus-1.{a,so}</seg>
        <seg>/usr/include/dbus-1.0, /usr/lib/dbus-1.0</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

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

      <varlistentry id="libdbus-1">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libdbus-1</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Contains API functions used to communicate with the D-Bus
          message bus.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-libdbus libdbus-1">
            <primary sortas="c-libdbus">libdbus</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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