Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-05-20

Chapter 10. Graphics and Font Libraries

gegl-0.2.0

Introduction to gegl

This package provides the GEneric Graphics Library, which is a graph based image processing format.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.1 platform.

Package Information

gegl Dependencies

Required

babl-0.1.10

Optional

AsciiDoc, cairo-1.12.2, enscript, exiv2-0.22, FFmpeg-0.10.3, gdk-pixbuf-2.26.1, Graphviz-2.28.0, lensfun, libjpeg-8d, libopenraw, libpng-1.5.9, librsvg-2.36.1, libspiro, Lua, OpenEXR, Pango-1.30.0, Python-2.7.3, Ruby-1.9.2-p290, SDL-1.2.15, gobject-introspection-1.32.1, Vala-0.16.0, w3m-0.5.3 and libumfpack

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

Installation of gegl

Install gegl by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m644 docs/*.{css,html} /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gegl &&
install -d -v -m755 /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gegl/images &&
install -v -m644 docs/images/* /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gegl/images

Command Explanations

install -v -m644/docs/*/{css,html} ...: This and the subsequent commands install all the provided documentation instead of only operations.html and the stylesheet gegl.css.

--without-vala: Do not create a vala API - use this if vapigen breaks the build.

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

Contents

Installed Programs: gegl
Installed Libraries: libgegl-0.2.so, and libraries in /usr/lib/gegl-0.2/
Installed Directories: /usr/include/gegl-0.2/

Short Descriptions

gegl

is a commandline tool for working with the XML data model.

libgegl-0.2.so

provides infrastructure to do demand based cached non destructive image editing on larger than RAM buffers.

Last updated on 2012-05-07 18:20:02 +0000