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

Chapter 32. GNOME Core Packages

Zenity-2.30.0

Introduction to Zenity

Zenity is a rewrite of gdialog, the GNOME port of dialog which allows you to display GTK+ dialog boxes from the command line and shell scripts.

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

Package Information

Zenity Dependencies

Required

GNOME Doc Utils-0.20.2, gtk+-2.24.8, and which-2.20

Optional

libnotify-0.4.5

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/zenity

Installation of Zenity

Install Zenity by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) \
            --localstatedir=/var/lib \
            --mandir=$(pkg-config \
                --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/share/man &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0): Setting the prefix using this parameter instead of with $GNOME_PREFIX will ensure that the prefix is consistent with the installation environment and the package will be installed in the correct location.

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This parameter is used so that all ScrollKeeper files are installed in, and the ScrollKeeper database is properly updated in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of some files being installed in $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.

--mandir=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0)/share/man: This parameter causes the man.(X) files to be installed in $GNOME_PREFIX/share/man/man(X) instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/man/man(X).

Contents

Installed Programs: gdialog and zenity
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: $GNOME_PREFIX/share/{gnome/help/zenity/*,omf/zenity, zenity/clothes}

Short Descriptions

gdialog

is a Perl wrapper script which can be used with legacy scripts.

zenity

is a program that will display GTK+ dialogs, and return the user's input.

Last updated on 2010-08-22 01:36:45 +0000