Wiki » Building libyui-mga

libyui is a set of graphical library which are abstraction layer above Qt, Gtk and ncurses.

The manatools team has added some features called libyui-mga.

Here are the steps to have them packaged in Mageia.

1. Build libyui package without mga support

   You need to build libuyui first with "%bcond_with mga" in the spec file of libyui. You can find the line containing "%bcond" into the spec file easily with an explanation near. This step builds libyui-bindings without the 'mga' part.

2. Build libyui-mga package alone

   To do that you need to install libyui and libyui-devel, the packages built in the previous step. Note that you need only those two to build libyui-mga. Note that all the libyui packages must be built with the same major version. Find the related line into all the spec files %define major (16 at the time we are writing this page).

3. Buid libyui with mga support

   Once libyui-mga builds fine, you have to install libyui-mga and libyui-mga-devel. Go back on libyui packages, change its spec file and rebuild it with %bcond_without mga

   Once finished you can build all the other libyui-mga and the Gtk plugins having installed the built version of libyui, libyui-devel, libyui-mga and libyui-mga-devel.

   Note that now libyui-bindings is ready to support libyui-mga extension plugins, but tto work properly it needs all the libyui-mga-XX too.

4. Build Qt mga plugin

   Install the just built libyui-qt and libyui-qt-devel and build libyui-mga-qt

5. Build ncurses mga plugin

   Install just built libyui-ncurses and libyui-ncurses-devel and build libyui-mga-ncurses

6. Build GTK plugins (libyui-gtk first)

   GTK libyui mga plugin needs libyui-gtk to be built against new libyui, first. Once it's built install libyui-gtk and libyui-gtk-devel and build libyui-mga-gtk.