Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version svn-20100616

Chapter 8. General Libraries

Libgpg-error-1.7

Introduction to Libgpg-error

The Libgpg-error package contains a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components. Among these are GPG, GPGSM, GPGME, GPG-Agent, libgcrypt, Libksba, DirMngr, Pinentry, SmartCard Daemon and more.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform.

Package Information

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgpg-error

Installation of Libgpg-error

Install Libgpg-error by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m644 -D README \
                    /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error-1.7/README

Contents

Installed Programs: gpg-error and gpg-error-config
Installed Library: libgpg-error.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/share/common-lisp and /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error-1.7

Short Descriptions

gpg-error

is used to determine Libgpg-error error codes.

gpg-error-config

is a utility used to configure and build applications based on the Libgpg-error library. It can be used to query the C compiler and linker flags which are required to correctly compile and link the application against the Libgpg-error library.

liblibgpg-error.{so,a}

contains the Libgpg-error API functions.

Last updated on 2010-04-21 19:10:06 +0000