The GMime package contains a set of utilities for parsing and creating messages using the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) as defined by the applicable RFCs. See the GMime web site for the RFCs resourced. This is useful as it provides an API which adheres to the MIME specification as closely as possible while also providing programmers with an extremely easy to use interface to the API functions.
This package is known to build using an LFS 7.0 platform but has not been tested.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.21.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gmime/2.4/gmime-2.4.21.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 61e8b07ea941975c861f4d69eda293ad
Download size: 861 KB
Estimated disk space required: 17 MB
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU
DocBook-utils-0.6.14, GTK-Doc-1.18, and Gtk# (requires Mono)
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gmime
Install GMime by running the following commands:
./configure --prefix=/usr && make
If you have DocBook-utils-0.6.14 installed and you wish to generate the API tutorials, issue the following commands:
pushd docs/tutorial && docbook2html --nochunks gmime-tut.sgml && docbook2pdf gmime-tut.sgml && docbook2ps gmime-tut.sgml && docbook2txt gmime-tut.sgml && popd
To test the results, issue: make check. Note that some tests may fail because the corresponding sub-system is not installed or configured properly.
This package will overwrite the uudecode and uuencode programs installed by
the sharutils package (or any
other package that may install these programs) if they exist in
/usr/bin
. If you wish to preserve the
existing programs, ensure you rename them before issuing the
following commands.
Now, as the root
user:
make install && install -v -m755 -d /usr/share/doc/gmime-2.4.21 && install -v -m644 README \ /usr/share/doc/gmime-2.4.21
If you generated the API tutorials, still as the root
user:
install -v -m644 docs/tutorial/gmime* \ /usr/share/doc/gmime-2.4.21
--enable-gtk-doc
: Use this parameter if
GTK-Doc is installed and you wish
to rebuild and install the API documentation.
Last updated on 2012-01-11 00:38:28 +0000