The libmusicbrainz package contains a library which allows you to access the data held on the MusicBrainz server.
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This version of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable version of the System V books.
Download (HTTP): https://github.com/metabrainz/libmusicbrainz/releases/download/release-5.1.0/libmusicbrainz-5.1.0.tar.gz
Download MD5 sum: 4cc5556aa40ff7ab8f8cb83965535bc3
Download size: 76 KB
Estimated disk space required: 6.6 MB (additional 4.4 MB for the API documentation)
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
CMake-4.2.3, libxml2-2.15.1 and neon-0.36.0
First, fix a problem caused by CMake-3.18.0 and later:
patch -Np1 -i ../libmusicbrainz-5.1.0-cmake_fixes-1.patch
Fix also a problem caused by libxml-2.12.x:
sed -e 's/xmlErrorPtr /const xmlError */' \
-i src/xmlParser.cc
Install libmusicbrainz by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-D CMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5 .. &&
make
If you have installed Doxygen-1.16.1, optionally build the API documentation:
doxygen ../Doxyfile
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
make install
If you have built the API documentation, install, as the
root user:
rm -rf /usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-5.1.0 && cp -vr docs/ /usr/share/doc/libmusicbrainz-5.1.0