The VTE package contains a termcap file implementation for terminal emulators.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.2 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/vte/0.68/vte-0.68.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/vte/0.68/vte-0.68.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 895a99ff50461fa65717112afbf56e8d
Download size: 881 KB
Estimated disk space required: 16 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU (using parallelism=4; with tests)
GTK+-3.24.34, libxml2-2.10.0, and pcre2-10.40
ICU-71.1, GnuTLS-3.7.7, gobject-introspection-1.72.0, and Vala-0.56.2
FriBidi-1.0.12 and GTK-Doc-1.33.2
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/vte
Install VTE by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dfribidi=false .. && ninja
To test the results, issue ninja test.
Now, as the root
user:
ninja install && rm -v /etc/profile.d/vte.*
--buildtype=release
:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
rm -v /etc/profile.d/vte.*: This command removes two files installed in /etc/profile.d that have no use on a LFS system.
-Dfribidi=false
: Omit this
switch if you want to enable bidirectional capabilities.
-Dgnutls=false
: Add this switch if you
do not want to enable GnuTLS support.
-Dvapi=false
: Add this switch if you do
not want to enable vala bindings.
-Ddocs=true
: Add this switch if wish to
build the documentation.