Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-01-16

Chapter 8. General Libraries

telepathy-glib-0.9.2

Introduction to telepathy-glib

The telepathy-glib package is a library for GLib-based Telepathy components. Telepathy is a D-Bus framework for unifying real time communication, including instant messaging, voice calls and video calls. It abstracts differences between protocols to provide a unified interface for applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform.

Package Information

telepathy-glib Dependencies

Required

D-Bus GLib Bindings-0.98, libxslt-1.1.26, and Python-2.7.2

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.18

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/telepathy-glib

Installation of telepathy-glib

Install telepathy-glib by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libtelepathy-glib.{so.a}
Installed Directories: /usr/{include/telepathy-1.0/telepathy-glib/_gen, share/gtk-doc/html/telepathy-glib}

Short Descriptions

libtelepathy-glib.{so,a}

contains the telepathy-glib API functions.

Last updated on 2010-08-14 03:17:03 +0000