Beyond Linux From Scratch - Version 6.1

Chapter 31. GNOME Additional Packages

GAL-2.4.2

Introduction to GAL

The GAL package contains library functions that came from Evolution and Gnumeric. GAL is short for GNOME Application Libs.

Package Information

GAL Dependencies

Required

libgnomeui-2.10.0 and libgnomeprintui-2.10.2

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.3

Installation of GAL

In order to build the documentation using GTK-Doc, issue the following commands to fix a build problem: 

mv docs/gal-decl.txt docs/gal-2.4-decl.txt &&
mv docs/gal-sections.txt docs/gal-2.4-sections.txt &&
sed -i -e "s/gal-decl/gal-2.4-decl/" \
       -e "s/gal-sections/gal-2.4-sections/" docs/Makefile.in

Install GAL 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

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libgal-a11y-2.4.[so,a] and libgal-2.4.[so,a]
Installed Directories: $GNOME_PREFIX/include/gal-2.4, $GNOME_PREFIX/share/gtk-doc/html/gal-2.4, and $GNOME_PREFIX/share/gal-2.4

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