The Gvfs package is a userspace virtual filesystem designed to work with the I/O abstractions of GLib's GIO library.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 11.3 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gvfs/1.50/gvfs-1.50.3.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gvfs/1.50/gvfs-1.50.3.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 052ef17215d1ff52640713297d4d4f5e
Download size: 1.2 MB
Estimated disk space required: 33 MB
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (using parallelism=4)
dbus-1.14.6, GLib-2.74.5, libusb-1.0.26, and libsecret-0.20.5
Gcr-3.41.1, GTK+-3.24.36, libcdio-2.1.0, libgdata-0.18.1, libgudev-237, libsoup-3.2.2, elogind-246.10, and UDisks-2.9.4
Apache-2.4.55, Avahi-0.8, BlueZ-5.66, Fuse-3.13.1, gnome-online-accounts-3.46.0, GTK-Doc-1.33.2, libarchive-3.6.2, libgcrypt-1.10.1, libxml2-2.10.3, libxslt-1.1.37, OpenSSH-9.2p1, Samba-4.17.5, libbluray, libgphoto2, libimobiledevice, libmtp, libnfs, and Twisted
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gvfs
Install Gvfs by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
meson setup \
--prefix=/usr \
--buildtype=release \
-Dfuse=false \
-Dgphoto2=false \
-Dafc=false \
-Dbluray=false \
-Dnfs=false \
-Dmtp=false \
-Dsmb=false \
-Dtmpfilesdir=no \
-Ddnssd=false \
-Dgoa=false \
-Dgoogle=false \
-Dsystemduserunitdir=no .. &&
ninjaThis package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
If you installed the package to your system using a
“DESTDIR” method,
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled
was not updated/created. Create (or update) the file using the following
command as the root user:
glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas
--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype
suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may
produce unoptimized binaries.
-D<option>=false: These switches are
required if the corresponding dependency is not installed.
Remove those where you have installed the corresponding application and
wish to use it with Gvfs. The dnssd option
requires avahi and both goa and google require GNOME Online Accounts.
The google option also requires libgdata.
-Dtmpfilesdir=no -Dsystemduserunitdir=no: These
switches provide systemd directory locations. Setting them to
“no” disables the dependency on systemd and logind.
-Dcdda=false: This switch is required if libcdio is not
installed. The cdda backend is useless on machines without a CDROM/DVD
drive.