Introduction to XCB Utilities
The XCB utilities provide extensions that developers can use when
making X Window software. xcb-util-0.4.1 was just installed but
these utilities offer even more extensions that X Window software
may depend on.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.4
platform.
Package Information
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Download (HTTP): https://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/
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Download size: 1.1 MB
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Estimated disk space required: 13.3 MB
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Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU (ignoring the time to download)
XCB Utilities Dependencies
Required
libxcb-1.17.0 and xcb-util-0.4.1
Downloading XCB Utilities
First, create a list of files to be downloaded. This file will also
be used to verify the integrity of the downloads when complete:
cat > xcb-utils.md5 << "EOF"
a67bfac2eff696170259ef1f5ce1b611 xcb-util-image-0.4.1.tar.xz
fbdc05f86f72f287ed71b162f1a9725a xcb-util-keysyms-0.4.1.tar.xz
193b890e2a89a53c31e2ece3afcbd55f xcb-util-renderutil-0.3.10.tar.xz
581b3a092e3c0c1b4de6416d90b969c3 xcb-util-wm-0.4.2.tar.xz
bc30cd267b11ac5803fe19929cabd230 xcb-util-cursor-0.1.5.tar.xz
EOF
To download the needed files using Wget-1.25.0, use
the following commands:
mkdir xcb-utils &&
cd xcb-utils &&
grep -v '^#' ../xcb-utils.md5 | awk '{print $2}' | wget -i- -c \
-B https://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/ &&
md5sum -c ../xcb-utils.md5
Installation of XCB Utilities
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
When installing multiple packages in a script, the installation
needs to be done as the root user. There are three general
options that can be used to do this:
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Run the entire script as the root user (not recommended).
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Use the sudo
command from the Sudo-1.9.17p2 package.
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Use su -c "command
arguments" (quotes required) which will ask
for the root password for every iteration of the loop.
One way to handle this situation is to create a short
bash function that
automatically selects the appropriate method. Once the command is
set in the environment, it does not need to be set again.
as_root()
{
if [ $EUID = 0 ]; then $*
elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
else su -c \\"$*\\"
fi
}
export -f as_root
First, start a subshell that will exit on error:
bash -e
Install all of the packages by running the following commands:
for package in $(grep -v '^#' ../xcb-utils.md5 | awk '{print $2}')
do
packagedir=${package%.tar.?z*}
tar -xf $package
pushd $packagedir
./configure $XORG_CONFIG
make
as_root make install
popd
rm -rf $packagedir
done
Finally, exit the shell that was started earlier:
exit