Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 6.3

Chapter 8. General Libraries

libgsf-1.14.7

Introduction to libgsf

The libgsf package contains libgsf-1 libraries. These are useful for providing an extensible input/output abstraction layer for structured file formats.

Package Information

libgsf Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.12.12, libxml2-2.6.31, and XML::Parser-2.34

Optional

PyGTK-2.10.6, GConf-2.18.0.1 (required to build the gsf-office-thumbnailer program), GNOME Virtual File System-2.18.1 and libbonobo-2.18.0 (required to build the libgsf-gnome-1.so library which provides GNOME-2 support), and GTK-Doc-1.8

Note: you should build the libgsf-gnome-1.so library if you plan on building GnuCash-2.2.4 or Gnumeric-1.8.2 with GNOME support.

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

Installation of libgsf

Install libgsf by running the following commands: 

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

Running make check will build a battery of test programs which are built using the just-created libgsf-1 library. All the programs should build successfully with no errors displayed.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome/2.18.3: Pass this parameter to the configure script if you have GNOME-2 installed so that the GConf schema files are installed in the correct location.

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

Contents

Installed Program: gsf, gsf-office-thumbnailer (optional), and gsf-vba-dump
Installed Libraries: libgsf-1.{so,a} and optionally, libgsf-gnome-1.{so,a}
Installed Directories: /usr/include/libgsf-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/gsf

Last updated on 2008-03-09 18:59:14 -0500