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

Chapter 9. General Libraries

telepathy-mission-control-5.12.0

Introduction to Telepathy Mission Control

Telepathy Mission Control is an account manager and channel dispatcher for the Telepathy framework, allowing user interfaces and other clients to share connections to real-time communication services without conflicting.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.0 platform.

Package Information

Telepathy Mission Control Dependencies

Required

telepathy-glib-0.18.1

Recommended

libgnome-keyring-3.4.1, NetworkManager-0.9.4.0 and UPower-0.9.16

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.18 and libaccounts-glib

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

Installation of Telepathy Mission Control

Install Telepathy Mission Control by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --libexecdir=/usr/lib/telepathy \
            --enable-gnome-keyring \
            --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 ensures mission-control-5 is installed in a location conforming with the FHS instead of /usr/libexec/.

--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 Programs: mc-tool, mc-wait-for-name and mission-control-5
Installed Library: libmission-control-plugins.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/mission-control-5.5 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/mission-control-plugins

Short Descriptions

mc-tool

is a command line tool used to manipulate Mission Control accounts.

mc-wait-for-name

waits for a (D-Bus) bus name that will (after a while) be provided automatically by the desktop session.

mission-control-5

is a D-Bus service which runs on the session bus to implement AccountManager and ChannelDispatcher services described in the Telepathy D-Bus specification.

libmission-control-plugins.so

contains Telepathy Mission Control plugin API functions.

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