Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version svn-20070421

Chapter 31. GNOME Core Packages

ORBit2-2.14.2

Introduction to ORBit2

The ORBit2 package contains a high-performance CORBA Object Request Broker. This allows programs to send requests and receive replies from other programs.

Package Information

ORBit2 Dependencies

Required

libIDL-0.8.8 (ensure you read the “SVN GNOME is Broken” warning before installing the dependencies)

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.8 and OpenSSL-0.9.8e

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/orbit2

Installation of ORBit2

Install ORBit2 by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX \
            --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.14.3 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--prefix=$GNOME_PREFIX: This is the base installation for GNOME-2 from which all future package installations will receive their prefix parameter. Be sure that $GNOME_PREFIX is set for this install or globally to your install directory as described in the introduction of this Chapter.

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.14.3: This parameter causes the configuration files to be installed in /etc/gnome/2.14.3 instead of $GNOME_PREFIX/etc. Additionally (if applicable), the parameter ensures that the GConf-2 database is correctly updated.

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

Contents

Installed Programs: ior-decode-2, linc-cleanup-sockets, orbit-idl-2, orbit2-config and typelib-dump
Installed Libraries: libname-server-2.a, libORBit-2.{so,a}, libORBit-imodule-2.{so,a}, libORBitCosNaming-2.{so,a}, and Everything_module.{so,a}
Installed Directories: The following subdirectories of $GNOME_PREFIX/: include/orbit-2.0, lib/orbit-2.0 and share/{gtk-doc/html/ORBit2, idl/orbit-2.0}

Short Descriptions

libORBit-2.{so,a}

is the CORBA API.

Last updated on 2007-04-04 21:42:53 +0200