Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 2012-02-12

Chapter 34. GNOME Additional Packages

gucharmap-2.30.2

Introduction to gucharmap

gucharmap is a Unicode character map and font viewer. It allows you to browse through all the available Unicode characters and categories for the installed fonts, and to examine their detailed properties. It is an easy way to find the character you might only know by its Unicode name or code point.

This package is known to build using an LFS 6.5 platform but has not been tested.

Package Information

gucharmap Dependencies

Required

intltool-0.50.0, GLib-2.30.2, and gtk+-2.24.8

Optional

GConf-3.2.3, gir-repository-0.6.5, GNOME Doc Utils-0.20.6, GTK-Doc-1.18, PyGTK-2.17.0, and Rarian-0.8.1

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

Installation of gucharmap

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Note

The instructions below are based on installing the package into a GNOME environment. If, for whatever reason, you're installing this package without having the core GNOME libraries installed, you'll need to modify the --prefix= parameter on the configure script to point to your desired installation path (e.g., --prefix=/usr).

Install gucharmap by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=$(pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0) \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/3.2.2 \
            --localstatedir=/var/lib &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX: Setting the prefix using this parameter will ensure that the prefix is consistent with the installation environment and the package will be installed in the correct location.

--sysconfdir=$GNOME_SYSCONFDIR: Setting the sysconfdir using this parameter will ensure that the sysconfdir is consistent with the installation environment and the package will be installed in the correct location.

--localstatedir=/var/lib: This parameter is used so that all ScrollKeeper files are installed in, and the ScrollKeeper database is properly updated in /var/lib/scrollkeeper instead of some files being installed in $GNOME_PREFIX/var/scrollkeeper.

--disable-gconf: Use this parameter if you do not have GConf installed.

--enable-python-bindings: Use this parameter if you wish to enable python bindings.

--enable-introspection: Use this parameter if you wish to enable GObject introspection.

--disable-scrollkeeper: Use this parameter if you wish to disable the updates to the scrollkeeper database.

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

Contents

Installed Program: gucharmap
Installed Library: libgucharmap.so
Installed Directories: $GNOME_PREFIX/{include/gucharmap-2/gucharmap, share/{gnome/help/gucharmap/*,omf/gucharmap}}

Short Descriptions

gucharmap

is a Unicode character map and font viewer.

libgucharmap.so

contains the gucharmap API functions.

Last updated on 2010-08-21 09:39:41 +0000