Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.7

Chapter 4. Security

GPGME-1.5.3

Introduction to GPGME

The GPGME package is a C language library that allows to add support for cryptography to a program. It is designed to make access to public key crypto engines like GnuPG or GpgSM easier for applications. GPGME provides a high-level crypto API for encryption, decryption, signing, signature verification and key management.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.7 platform.

Package Information

  • Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/gpgme/gpgme-1.5.3.tar.bz2

  • Download MD5 sum: 082ab2632e7f051f5c09bafd5c4bfacf

  • Download size: 948 KB

  • Estimated disk space required: 17 MB (additional 1 MB for the tests)

  • Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (additional 0.1 SBU for the tests)

GPGME Dependencies

Required

Libassuan-2.2.0

Optional

GnuPG-2.0.26 (used during the testsuite)

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

Installation of GPGME

Install GPGME by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --disable-fd-passing \
            --disable-gpgsm-test &&
make

The test suite was modified and is close to useless, with 2/3 of failures.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-fd-passing: This option disables a problem causing a hang for some operations on some systems.

--disable-gpgsm-test: This option disables a test with gpgsm in some systems breaking make.

Contents

Installed Program: gpgme-config and gpgme-tool
Installed Libraries: libgpgme-pthread.so and libgpgme.so
Installed Directory: /usr/share/common-lisp/source/gpgme

Short Descriptions

gpgme-tool

prints fingerprint and keyid with keyservers.

libgpgme-pthread.so

contains the GPGME API functions for applications using pthread.

libgpgme.so

contains the GPGME API functions.

Last updated on 2015-02-23 21:00:51 -0800