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

Chapter 9. General Libraries

telepathy-glib-0.18.1

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-7.0 platform.

Package Information

Telepathy GLib Dependencies

Required

D-Bus GLib Bindings-0.98, libxslt-1.1.26 and Python-2.7.3

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.32.1 and Vala-0.16.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.18

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

Installation of Telepathy GLlib

Install Telepathy GLib by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/telepathy \
            --enable-vala-bindings \
            --disable-static &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--libexecdir=/usr/lib/telepathy: This parameter prevents creating of /usr/libexec directory.

--enable-vala-bindings: This option enables building of the Vala bindings. Remove if you don't have Vala-0.16.0 installed.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

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

Contents

Installed Library: libtelepathy-glib.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/telepathy-1.0/telepathy-glib, /usr/lib/telepathy and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/telepathy-glib

Short Descriptions

libtelepathy-glib.so

contains the Telepathy GLib API functions.

Last updated on 2012-05-16 16:39:28 +0000