Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r11.2-1152

Chapter 9. General Libraries

libgpg-error-1.46

Introduction to libgpg-error

The libgpg-error package contains a library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components.

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Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the book.

Package Information

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/libgpg-error

Installation of libgpg-error

Install libgpg-error by running the following commands: 

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

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user: 

make install &&
install -v -m644 -D README /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error-1.46/README

Contents

Installed Programs: gpg-error, gpgrt-config, and yat2m
Installed Library: libgpg-error.so
Installed Directories: /usr/share/common-lisp/source/gpg-error, /usr/share/libgpg-error, and /usr/share/doc/libgpg-error-1.46

Short Descriptions

gpg-error

is used to determine libgpg-error error codes

gpgrt-config

is a pkg-config style tool for querying the information about installed version of libgpg-error

yat2m

extracts man pages from a Texinfo source

libgpg-error.so

contains the libgpg-error API functions