Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 6.3

Chapter 29. GNOME Core Packages

libgnomecanvas-2.14.0

Introduction to libgnomecanvas

The libgnomecanvas package contains the GNOME canvas library. It is an engine for structured graphics and one of the essential GNOME libraries.

Package Information

libgnomecanvas Dependencies

Required

libglade-2.6.1 and libart_lgpl-2.3.19

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.8

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgnomecanvas

Installation of libgnomecanvas

[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 libgnomecanvas by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0): Setting the prefix using this parameter instead of with $GNOME_PREFIX will ensure that the prefix is consistent with the installation environment and the package will be installed in the correct location.

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

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libgnomecanvas-2.{so,a} and the libcanvas.{so,a} Glade library
Installed Directories: The following subdirectories of $GNOME_PREFIX/: include/libgnomecanvas-2.0, lib/libglade and share/gtk-doc/html/libgnomecanvas

Last updated on 2007-07-25 19:31:00 -0500