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<sect1 id="ch-system-glib" role="wrap">
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  <title>Glib-&glib-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib">
    <primary sortas="a-Glib">Glib</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title/>

    <para>Glib is a tool to help you insert the correct compiler options
    on the command line when compiling applications and libraries.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Glib</title>

    <para os="a">Prepare Glib for compilation:</para>

<screen os="b"><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

    <para os="c">Compile the package:</para>

<screen os="d"><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

    <para os="e">To test the results, issue:
    <userinput>make -k check</userinput>.</para>

    <para os="f">Install the package:</para>

<screen os="g"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 id="contents-glib" role="content">
    <title>Contents of Glib</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed directory</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>gdbus, gio-querymodules, glib-compile-schemas, glib-genmarshal,
        glib-gettextize, glib-mkenums, gobject-query, gsettings, gtester
        and gtester-report</seg>
        <seg>libglib-2.0.so, libgmodule-2.0.so, libgthread-2.0.so,
        libgobject-2.0.so and libgio-2.0.so</seg>
        <seg>/usr/share/glib-2.0, /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/glib, /usr/lib/glib-2.0
       and /usr/include/glib-2.0</seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gdbus">
        <term><command>gdbus</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Introspect and call remote objects.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gdbus">
            <primary sortas="b-gdbus">gdbus</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gio-querymodules">
        <term><command>gio-querymodules</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><command>gio-querymodules</command> creates a giomodule.cache file
       in the listed directories. This file lists the implemented extension points
       for each module that has been found. It is used by GIO at runtime to avoid 
       opening all modules just to find out which extension points they are
       implementing.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gio-querymodules">
            <primary sortas="b-gio-querymodules">gio-querymodules</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="glib-compile-schemas">
        <term><command>glib-compile-schemas</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>GSettings schema compiler.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib glib-compile-schemas">
            <primary sortas="b-glib-compile-schemas">glib-compile-schemas</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="glib-genmarshal">
        <term><command>glib-genmarshal</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>C code marshaller generation utility for GLib closures.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib glib-genmarshal">
            <primary sortas="b-glib-genmarshal">glib-genmarshal</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="glib-gettextize">
        <term><command>glib-gettextize</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><command>glib-gettextize</command> helps to prepare a 
       source package for being internationalized through gettext. It is a variant of 
       the <command>gettextize</command> that ships with gettext.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib glib-gettextize">
            <primary sortas="b-glib-gettextize">glib-gettextize</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="glib-mkenums">
        <term><command>glib-mkenums</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>C language enum description generation utility.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib glib-mkenums">
            <primary sortas="b-glib-mkenums">glib-mkenums</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gobject-query">
        <term><command>gobject-query</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><command>gobject-query</command> takes a mandatory argument that specifies
            whether it should iterate over the fundamental types or print a type tree.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gobject-query">
            <primary sortas="b-gobject-query">gobject-query</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gsettings">
        <term><command>gsettings</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><command>gsettings</command> offers a simple commandline interface to 
           <command>GSettings</command>. It lets you get, set or monitor an individual key 
           for changes.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gsettings">
            <primary sortas="b-gsettings">gsettings</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gtester">
        <term><command>gtester</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><command>gtester</command> is a utility to run unit tests that have been
             written using the GLib test framework.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gtester">
            <primary sortas="b-gtester">gtester</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gtester-report">
        <term><command>gtester-report</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para><command>gtester-report</command> is a script which converts the XML output
             generated by gtester into HTML.</para>
          <indexterm zone="ch-system-glib gtester-report">
            <primary sortas="b-gtester-report">gtester-report</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

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