Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd Edition) - Version 9.1

Chapter 33. GNOME Libraries and Desktop

libgweather-3.34.0

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-9.1 platform.

Package Information

libgweather Dependencies

Required

geocode-glib-3.26.1, GTK+-3.24.13, and libsoup-2.68.3

Recommended

gobject-introspection-1.62.0, libxml2-2.9.10, and Vala-0.46.6

Optional

Glade and GTK-Doc-1.32

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

Installation of libgweather

First, fix a bug in the test suite that causes problems because of a duplicate weather station: 

sed -i '338a "KX26",' libgweather/test_libgweather.c

Install libgweather by running the following commands: 

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

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

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

Now, as the root user: 

ninja install

Command Explanations

-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/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.

Last updated on 2020-02-25 20:51:27 -0800