Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 6.1

Chapter 30. GNOME Core Packages

GAIL-1.8.3

Introduction to GAIL

The GAIL package contains the GNOME Accessibility Implementation Libraries.

Package Information

GAIL Dependencies

Required

libgnomecanvas-2.10.0

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.3

Installation of GAIL

[Note]

Note

The instructions below are based on installing the package into a GNOME-2 environment. If, for whatever reason, you're installing this package without having ORBit2 and the core GNOME-2 libraries installed, you'll need to modify the --prefix= parameter on the configure script to point to your desired installation path (e.g., --prefix=/usr).

Install GAIL by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

GTK+ will look for the GAIL modules in /usr/lib even if $GNOME_PREFIX is NOT /usr. If $GNOME_PREFIX is anything other than /usr, create a symlink to $GNOME_PREFIX to satisfy this requirement: 

ln -v -sf `pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0`/lib/gtk-2.0/modules \
    /usr/lib/gtk-2.0

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libgailutil.so and GAIL GTK+ modules
Installed Directories: $GNOME_PREFIX/include/gail-1.0, $GNOME_PREFIX/lib/gtk-2.0/modules, and $GNOME_PREFIX/share/gtk-doc/html/gail-libgail-util

Short Descriptions

libgailutil.so

provides the functions that solve accessibility problems in a consistent manner across GNOME.

Last updated on 2005-08-01 13:29:19 -0600