Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 11.1

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

libgweather-40.0

Introduction to libgweather

The libgweather package is a library used to access weather information from online services for numerous locations.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

Package Information

libgweather Dependencies

Required

geocode-glib-3.26.2, GTK+-3.24.31, and libsoup-2.74.2

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.70.0, libxml2-2.9.13, and Vala-0.54.7

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.33.2, Glade, and pylint

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgweather

Installation of libgweather

Install libgweather by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: LANG=C ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

--buildtype=release: Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as the default may produce unoptimized binaries.

-Dgtk_doc=true: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libgweather-3.so
Installed Directories: /usr/lib/libgweather, /usr/include/libgweather-3.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/libgweather-3.0 and /usr/share/libgweather

Short Descriptions

libgweather-3.so

contains functions that allow the retrieval of weather information

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