glfs/general/genlib/glib2.xml
Randy McMurchy d8f34ff1d8 Updated to GLib-2.22.4
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
%general-entities;
<!ENTITY glib2-download-http "&gnome-download-http;/glib/2.22/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY glib2-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/glib/2.22/glib-&glib2-version;.tar.bz2">
<!ENTITY glib2-md5sum "d91bcbe27556430ddecce65086355708">
<!ENTITY glib2-size "5.0 MB">
<!ENTITY glib2-buildsize "96 MB">
<!ENTITY glib2-time "1.0 SBU (additional 1.7 SBU to run the test suite)">
]>
<sect1 id="glib2" xreflabel="GLib-&glib2-version;">
<?dbhtml filename="glib2.html"?>
<sect1info>
<othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
<date>$Date$</date>
</sect1info>
<title>GLib-&glib2-version;</title>
<indexterm zone="glib2">
<primary sortas="a-GLib2">GLib2</primary>
</indexterm>
<sect2 role="package">
<title>Introduction to GLib</title>
<para>The <application>GLib</application> 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.</para>
<!-- Compiled against PCRE, Python, and desktop-file-utils.
All 76 tests passed -->
&lfs65_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
<listitem>
<para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-http;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&glib2-download-ftp;"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download MD5 sum: &glib2-md5sum;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Download size: &glib2-size;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated disk space required: &glib2-buildsize;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Estimated build time: &glib2-time;</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">GLib Dependencies</bridgehead>
<!-- <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
<para role="required"><xref linkend="pkgconfig"/></para> -->
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
<para role="recommended"><xref linkend="pcre"/>
(built with unicode properties)</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="attr"/>,
<xref linkend="gamin"/>, and
<xref linkend="gtk-doc"/></para>
<para><application>Gamin</application> requires
<application>GLib</application> in order to compile; therefore, you must
first install <application>GLib</application>, then compile
<application>Gamin</application>, and recompile
<application>GLib</application> against it.</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional Runtime Dependency for the
<command>gtester-report</command> program</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="python"/></para>
<para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
<ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/glib2"/></para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of GLib</title>
<para>Install <application>GLib</application> by running the following
commands:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr \
--with-pcre=system &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>
<para>The <application>GLib</application> test suite requires
<application>desktop-file-utils</application> in order to run. However,
<application>desktop-file-utils</application> requires
<application>GLib</application> in order to compile; therefore, you must
first install <application>GLib</application> and then run the test
suite.</para>
<para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen role="root"><userinput>make install &amp;&amp;
chmod -v 755 /usr/bin/gtester-report</userinput></screen>
<para>You should now install <xref linkend="desktop-file-utils"/> and proceed to
run the test suite.</para>
<para>To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="commands">
<title>Command Explanations</title>
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude"
href="../../xincludes/gtk-doc-rebuild.xml"/>
<para><parameter>--with-pcre=system</parameter>: This parameter causes the
build to use a system-provided version of the
<application>PCRE</application> library instead of an internal
version.</para>
<para><parameter>--disable-static</parameter>: prevent static libraries
being built and installed.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="configuration">
<title>Configuring GLib</title>
<sect3>
<title>Configuration Information</title>
<para>By default, <application>GLib</application> assumes that all
filenames are in the UTF-8 charset. See the <xref
linkend="locale-wrong-filename-encoding"/> section of the <xref
linkend="locale-issues"/> page for more details on this kind of
issue. In order to tell <application>GLib</application> and
applications that use it that filenames are in the default locale
encoding, set the variable <envar>G_FILENAME_ENCODING</envar> to the
value "@locale":</para>
<screen><userinput>cat &gt; /etc/profile.d/glib2-locale.sh &lt;&lt; "EOF"
<literal># Use the current locale charset for filenames
# in applications using GLib
export G_FILENAME_ENCODING=@locale</literal>
EOF</userinput></screen>
</sect3>
</sect2>
<sect2 role="content">
<title>Contents</title>
<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
<seglistitem>
<seg>glib-genmarshal, glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums,
gobject-query, gtester and gtester-report</seg>
<seg>libgio-2.0.so, libglib-2.0.so, libgobject-2.0.so,
libgmodule-2.0.so, and libgthread-2.0.so</seg>
<seg>/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0, /usr/include/glib-2.0,
/usr/lib/gio, /usr/lib/glib-2.0, /usr/share/glib-2.0,
/usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gio, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib,
and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gobject</seg>
</seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
<variablelist>
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
<?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
<varlistentry id="glib-genmarshal">
<term><command>glib-genmarshal</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a C code marshaller generation utility for GLib
closures.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 glib-genmarshal">
<primary sortas="b-glib-genmarshal">glib-genmarshal</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="glib-gettextize">
<term><command>glib-gettextize</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a variant of the <application>gettext</application>
internationalization utility.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 glib-gettextize">
<primary sortas="b-glib-gettextize">glib-gettextize</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="glib-mkenums">
<term><command>glib-mkenums</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a C language enum description generation utility.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 glib-mkenums">
<primary sortas="b-glib-mkenums">glib-mkenums</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="gobject-query">
<term><command>gobject-query</command></term>
<listitem>
<para>is a small utility that draws a tree of types.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 gobject-query">
<primary sortas="b-gobject-query">gobject-query</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="GLib-libraries">
<term>GLib libraries</term>
<listitem>
<para>contain a low-level core library for the
<application>GIMP</application> Toolkit.</para>
<indexterm zone="glib2 GLib-libraries">
<primary sortas="c-GLib-libraries">Glib libraries</primary>
</indexterm>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect2>
</sect1>