Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 10.0

Chapter 9. General Libraries

libxkbcommon-0.10.0

Introduction to libxkbcommon

libxkbcommon is a keymap compiler and support library which processes a reduced subset of keymaps as defined by the XKB specification.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-10.0 platform.

Package Information

libxkbcommon Dependencies

Required

xkeyboard-config-2.30

Recommended

libxcb-1.14 and Wayland-1.18.0

Optional

Doxygen-1.8.19

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

Installation of libxkbcommon

Install libxkbcommon by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr -Denable-docs=false .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue: ninja test.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Denable-docs=false: This switch disables documentation generation. Remove it if Doxygen-1.8.19 is installed.

mv -v /usr/share/doc/libxkbcommon{,-0.10.0}: If you removed -Denable-docs=false, use this command to install the documentation in a versioned directory.

Contents

Installed Programs: None
Installed Libraries: libxkbcommon.so and libxkbcommon-x11.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/xkbcommon and /usr/share/doc/libxkbcommon-0.10.0

Short Descriptions

libxkbcommon.so

contains the libxkbcommon API functions.

libxkbcommon-x11.so

contains the libxkbcommon X11 specific API functions.

Last updated on 2020-08-17 21:24:30 -0700