Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 6.3

Chapter 8. General Libraries

Libgpg-error-1.5

Introduction to Libgpg-error

The Libgpg-error package contains a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, libgcrypt, Libksba, DirMngr, Pinentry, SmartCard Daemon and more.

Package Information

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgpg-error

Installation of Libgpg-error

Install Libgpg-error 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 -D README /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error-1.5/README

Contents

Installed Program: libgpg-error and libgpg-error-config
Installed Library: liblibgpg-error.{so,a}
Installed Directory: /usr/share/common-lisp

Short Descriptions

gpg-error

is used to determine Libgpg-error error codes.

gpg-error-config

is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the Libgpg-error library. It can be used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the Libgpg-error library.

liblibgpg-error.{so,a}

contains the Libgpg-error API functions.

Last updated on 2008-05-10 18:53:20 -0500