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

Chapter 38. Multimedia Libraries and Drivers

telepathy-farsight-0.0.4

Introduction to telepathy-farsight

The telepathy-farsight package contains a Telepathy client that uses Farsight and GStreamer to handle media streaming channels. It's used as a background process by other Telepathy clients, rather than presenting any user interface of its own.

Package Information

telepathy-farsight Dependencies

Required

Farsight2-0.0.12 and telepathy-glib-0.9.2

Optional

GStreamer Python Bindings, GTK-Doc-1.18, and PyGTK-2.17.0

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

Installation of telepathy-farsight

Install telepathy-farsight by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --disable-python &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-python: This parameter disables the Python bindings from being built.

--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 Libraries: libtelepathy-farsight.{so,a} and tpfarsight.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/{include/telepathy-1.0/telepathy-farsight, share/gtk-doc/html/telepathy-farsight}

Short Descriptions

libtelepathy-farsight.{so,a}

contains the telepathy-farsight API functions.

tpfarsight.{so,a}

is a Python module.

Last updated on 2010-08-14 09:51:16 +0000