Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 9.0

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

Folks-0.12.1

Introduction to Folks

Folks is a library that aggregates people from multiple sources (e.g, Telepathy connection managers and eventually Evolution Data Server, Facebook, etc.) to create metacontacts.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-9.0 platform.

Package Information

Folks Dependencies

Required

evolution-data-server-3.32.4, gobject-introspection-1.60.2, libgee-0.20.2, Python-2.7.16 (during the build), and telepathy-glib-0.24.1

Recommended

BlueZ-5.50 and Vala-0.44.7

Optional

Tracker-2.2.2 (Broken due to API changes in tracker), libsocialweb, and Zeitgeist

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

Installation of Folks

Install Folks by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc .. &&
ninja

To test the results, issue ninja test from a local X session started with dbus-launch.

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

-Dtracker_backend=true: This switch enables building the Tracker backend. Use it if you have Tracker installed. This functionality is current broken, however, due to an upstream API change in Tracker that hasn't been accounted for in this package.

-Ddocs=true: This switch enables documentation generation.

Contents

Installed Programs: folks-import and folks-inspect
Installed Libraries: libfolks-dummy.so, libfolks-eds.so, libfolks.so, and libfolks-telepathy.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/folks and /usr/lib/folks

Short Descriptions

folks-import

is used to import meta-contact information to libfolks.

folks-inspect

is used to inspect meta-contact information in libfolks.

libfolks-eds.so

contains Evolution specific implementations of the libfolks classes.

libfolks.so

contains the Folks API functions.

libfolks-telepathy.so

contains Telepathy specific implementations of the libfolks classes.

Last updated on 2019-08-25 11:35:01 -0700