The Gcr package contains libraries used for displaying certificates and accessing key stores. It also provides the viewer for crypto files on the GNOME Desktop.
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Download (HTTP): https://download.gnome.org/sources/gcr/4.0/gcr-4.0.0.tar.xz
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/gnome/sources/gcr/4.0/gcr-4.0.0.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 836cd6d1cf57b2e0e9df40f6980fdb99
Download size: 700 KB
Estimated disk space required: 25 MB (with tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (with tests; both using parallelism=4)
GLib-2.74.5, libgcrypt-1.10.1, and p11-kit-0.24.1
GnuPG-2.4.0, gobject-introspection-1.74.0, GTK-4.8.3, libsecret-0.20.5, libxslt-1.1.37, and Vala-0.56.3
Gi-DocGen-2023.1 and Valgrind-3.20.0
User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gcr
Both gcr-3 and gcr-4 are coinstallable. This version of the package is used to support GTK-4 applications, such as gnome-shell-43.2.
Install Gcr by running the following commands:
mkdir build && cd build && meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release -Dgtk_doc=false .. && ninja
To test the results, issue: ninja test. The tests must be run from an X Terminal or similar.
Now, as the root user:
ninja install
--buildtype=release:
Specify a buildtype suitable for stable releases of the package, as
the default may produce unoptimized binaries.
-Dgtk=false: Use this switch if you
haven't installed GTK-4.8.3. Note that gcr-viewer will not be installed if this is
passed to meson.
-Dgtk_doc=true: Use this switch if you
wish to generate the API reference documentation. Note that you
must have Gi-DocGen-2023.1 installed, and use the
following command to fix an issue in the build system before
running cd build:
sed -e "/install_dir/s@,\$@ / 'gcr-4.0.0'&@" \
-e "/fatal-warnings/d" -i docs/*/meson.build