Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r11.2-1338

Chapter 9. General Libraries

libunique-1.1.6

Introduction to libunique

The libunique package contains a library for writing single instance applications.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.

Package Information

Additional Downloads

libunique Dependencies

Required

GTK+-2.24.33, also GTK-Doc-1.33.2 (for autoreconf)

Optional

gobject-introspection-1.74.0

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libunique

Installation of libunique

Install libunique by running the following commands: 

patch -Np1 -i ../libunique-1.1.6-upstream_fixes-1.patch &&
autoreconf -fi &&

./configure --prefix=/usr  \
            --disable-dbus \
            --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-dbus: This switch disables D-Bus backend in favor of the GDBus backend.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

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

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Library: libunique-1.0.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/unique-1.0 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/unique

Short Descriptions

libunique-1.0.so

contains the libunique API functions for single instance support