GLib-2.30.1
Introduction to GLib
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.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0
platform.
Package Information
GLib Dependencies
Required
libffi-3.0.10 and Python-2.7.2
Recommended
PCRE-8.12
(built with unicode properties)
Optional
attr-2.4.44 and GTK-Doc-1.18
Additional Runtime Dependencies
Quoted directly from the INSTALL
file; “Some of the mimetype-related
functionality in GIO requires the update-mime-database and
update-desktop-database
utilities”, which are part of shared-mime-info-0.91 and desktop-file-utils-0.18,
respectively.
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/glib2
Installation of GLib
Install GLib by running the
following commands:
PCRE_LIBS=-lpcre PCRE_CFLAGS=" " \
LIBFFI_LIBS=-lffi LIBFFI_CFLAGS=-I/usr/lib/libffi-3.0.10/include \
./configure --prefix=/usr --with-pcre=system &&
make
The GLib test suite requires
desktop-file-utils in order to
run. However, desktop-file-utils
requires GLib in order to compile;
therefore, you must first install GLib and then run the test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install &&
ln -v -sfn ../../lib/glib-2.0/include/glibconfig.h /usr/include/glib-2.0/glibconfig.h
You should now install desktop-file-utils-0.18 and proceed
to run the test suite.
To test the results, issue: make
check.
Command Explanations
PCRE_* and LIBFFI_*: Glib is a
prerequsite for pkg_config, but it
wants to use pkg_config during the
build process. These environment variables work around not having
pkg_config available.
ln -v -sfn ...
glibconfig.h: Place a link to an architecture
dependent header file where programs can find it.
--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if
GTK-Doc is installed and you wish
to rebuild and install the API documentation.
--with-pcre=system: This
parameter causes the build to use a system-provided version of the
PCRE library instead of an
internal version.
Configuring GLib
Configuration Information
By default, GLib assumes that
all filenames are in the UTF-8 charset. See the Wrong
Filename Encoding section of the Locale Related Issues page for more
details on this kind of issue. In order to tell GLib and applications that use it that
filenames are in the default locale encoding, set the variable
G_FILENAME_ENCODING to the value
"@locale":
cat > /etc/profile.d/glib2-locale.sh << "EOF"
# Use the current locale charset for filenames
# in applications using GLib
export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale
EOF
Contents
Installed Programs:
gio-querymodules, glib-genmarshal,
glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums, gobject-query, gtester and
gtester-report
Installed Libraries:
libgio-2.0.so, libglib-2.0.so,
libgmodule-2.0.so, libgobject-2.0.so, and
libgthread-2.0.so
Installed Directories:
/usr/{include/{gio-unix-2.0/gio,glib-2.0/{gio,glib,gobject}},
lib/{gio/modules,glib-2.0/include},share/{gdb/auto-load,glib-2.0/{gdb,
gettext/po},gtk-doc/html/{gio,glib,gobject}}}
Short Descriptions
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glib-genmarshal
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is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib
closures.
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glib-gettextize
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is a variant of the gettext internationalization
utility.
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glib-mkenums
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is a C language enum description generation utility.
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gobject-query
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is a small utility that draws a tree of types.
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gtester
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is a test running utility.
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gtester-report
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is a test report formatting utility.
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GLib
libraries
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contain a low-level core library for the GIMP Toolkit.
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Last updated on 2011-11-17 16:36:40 +0000