glib/INSTALL
Tim Janik d5803865b4 version bump to 1.1.3, binary age 0, interface age 0.
Sun Aug 16 20:28:27 1998  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * version bump to 1.1.3, binary age 0, interface age 0.

        * glib.h: be nice to platforms that don't have gint64 and don't
        issue #warning on every compilation. since glib doesn't require
        gint64 itself, packages that need gint64 should test for this
        themselves.

        * glib.h:
        * gutils.c: added a new function g_vsnprintf().

Fri Aug 14 16:41:53 1998  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * glib.h: added static inline functions for bit mask tests:
        g_bit_nth_lsf, g_bit_nth_msf and g_bit_storage.

Fri Aug 13 14:23:37 1998  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * glib.h:
        * gmessages.c:
        revised the message handling system, which is now based on a new
        mechanism g_log*. most of the assertment macros got adapted to
        feature the new g_log() call with an additional specification of
        the log level in a preprocessor macro G_LOG_DOMAIN. if G_LOG_DOMAIN
        is undefined upon the includion of glib.h, it'll be defined with a
        value of (NULL) and thus preserves the original bahaviour for
        warning and error messages. the message handler setting functions
        for g_warning, g_error and g_message are only provided for backwards
        compatibility and might get removed somewhen.

        * Makefile.am: feature the G_LOG_DOMAIN macro to set the log domain
        to "GLib" upon compilation. we currently have to add this definition
        to the DEFS variable.
        * testglib.c: we need an ugly #undef G_LOG_DOMAIN at the start
        of this file currently, since automake doesn't support per target
        _CFLAGS yet.

        * glib.h: changed some gints to gbooleans, made a few const corrections,
        removed some superfluous G_STMT_START{}G_STMT_END wrappers, added some
        in other required places.

        * gnode.c:
        (g_node_prepend):
        (g_node_insert_before):
        (g_node_insert):
        (g_node_append_data):
        (g_node_prepend_data):
        (g_node_insert_data_before):
        (g_node_insert_data):
        (g_node_append):
        return (node), so these macros/functions can be usefully chained with
        g_node_new().

[GModule]
Fri Aug 14 02:24:39 1998  Tim Janik  <timj@gtk.org>

        * Makefile.am: feature the G_LOG_DOMAIN macro to set the log domain
        to "GModule" upon compilation. we currently have to add this definition
        to the DEFS variable.
        * testgmodule.c: we need an ugly #undef G_LOG_DOMAIN at the start
        of this file currently, since automake doesn't support per target
        _CFLAGS yet.
1998-08-16 21:14:11 +00:00

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Simple install procedure
========================
% gzip -cd glib-1.1.3.tar.gz | tar xvf - # unpack the sources
% cd glib-1.1.3 # change to the toplevel directory
% ./configure # run the `configure' script
% make # build GLIB
[ Become root if necessary ]
% make install # install GLIB
The Nitty-Gritty
================
The 'configure' script can be given a number of options to enable
and disable various features. For a complete list, type:
./configure --help
A few of the more important ones:
* --prefix=PREFIX install architecture-independent files in PREFIX
[ Defaults to /usr/local ]
* --exec-prefix=EPREFIX install architecture-dependent files in EPREFIX
[ Defaults to the value given to --prefix ]
Options can be given to the compiler and linker by setting
environment variables before running configure. A few of the more
important ones:
CC : The C compiler to use
CPPFLAGS : Flags for the C preprocesser such as -I and -D
CFLAGS : C compiler flags
The most important use of this is to set the
optimization/debugging flags. For instance, to compile with no
debugging information at all, run configure as:
CFLAGS=-O2 ./configure # Bourne compatible shells (sh/bash/zsh)
or,
setenv CFLAGS -O2 ; ./configure # csh and variants
Installation directories
========================
The location of the installed files is determined by the --prefix
and --exec-prefix options given to configure. There are also more
detailed flags to control individual directories. However, the
use of these flags is not tested.
One particular detail to note, is that the architecture-dependent
include file glibconfig.h is installed in:
$exec_pref/lib/glib/include/
if you have a version in $prefix/include, this is out of date
and should be deleted.
A shell script glib-config is created during the configure
process, and installed in the bin/ directory
($exec_prefix/bin). This is used to determine the location of glib
when building applications. If you move glib after installation,
it will be necessary to edit this file.