Beyond Linux® From Scratch (systemd edition) - Version 8.4

Chapter 11. General Utilities

telepathy-mission-control-5.16.4

Introduction to Telepathy Mission Control

Telepathy Mission Control is an account manager and channel dispatcher for the Telepathy framework, allowing user interfaces and other clients to share connections to real-time communication services without conflicting.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.4 platform.

Package Information

Telepathy Mission Control Dependencies

Required

telepathy-glib-0.24.1

Recommended

NetworkManager-1.14.6

Optional

GTK-Doc-1.29, libgnome-keyring, and UPower-0.99.9

User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/telepathy-mission-control

Installation of Telepathy Mission Control

Install Telepathy Mission Control by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-static &&
make

This package does not come with a testsuite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-gtk-doc: Use this parameter if GTK-Doc is installed and you wish to rebuild and install the API documentation.

Contents

Installed Programs: mc-tool, mc-wait-for-name and mission-control-5 (library executable)
Installed Libraries: libmission-control-plugins.so
Installed Directories: /usr/include/mission-control-5.5 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/mission-control-plugins

Short Descriptions

mc-tool

is a command line tool used to manipulate Mission Control accounts.

mc-wait-for-name

waits for a (D-Bus) bus name that will (after a while) be provided automatically by the desktop session.

mission-control-5

is a D-Bus service which runs on the session bus to implement AccountManager and ChannelDispatcher services described in the Telepathy D-Bus specification.

libmission-control-plugins.so

contains Telepathy Mission Control plugin API functions.

Last updated on 2019-02-20 23:16:01 -0800