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A list of the installed files, along with their short descriptions can be found at ../../../../lfs/view/systemd/chapter08/dbus.html#contents-dbus.
Even though D-Bus was built in LFS, there are some features provided by the package that other BLFS packages need, but their dependencies didn't fit into LFS.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.1 platform.
Download (HTTP): https://dbus.freedesktop.org/releases/dbus/dbus-1.14.10.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 46070a3487817ff690981f8cd2ba9376
Download size: 1.3 MB
Estimated disk space required: 23 MB (add 25 MB for tests)
Estimated build time: 0.2 SBU (add 1.5 SBU for tests)
Xorg Libraries (for dbus-launch program)
Systemd-255 (runtime, for registering services launched by D-Bus session daemon as systemd user services); For the tests: D-Bus Python-1.3.2, PyGObject-3.46.0, and Valgrind-3.22.0; for documentation: Doxygen-1.10.0, xmlto-0.0.28, Ducktype, and Yelp Tools
Install D-Bus by running the following commands (you may wish to review the output from ./configure --help first and add any desired parameters to the configure command shown below):
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var \
--runstatedir=/run \
--enable-user-session \
--disable-doxygen-docs \
--disable-xml-docs \
--disable-static \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/dbus-1.14.10 \
--with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket &&
make
See below for test instructions.
Now, as the root user:
make install
If you are using a DESTDIR install, dbus-daemon-launch-helper needs
to be fixed afterwards. Issue, as root user:
chown -v root:messagebus /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper && chmod -v 4750 /usr/libexec/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
Many tests are disabled unless both D-Bus Python-1.3.2 and PyGObject-3.46.0 have been installed. They must be run as an unprivileged user from a local session with bus address. To run the standard tests issue make check.
If you want to run the unit regression tests, configure requires additional parameters which expose additional functionality in the binaries that are not intended to be used in a production build of D-Bus. If you would like to run the tests, issue the following commands (for the tests, you don't need to build the docs):
make distclean &&
PYTHON=python3 ./configure --enable-tests \
--enable-asserts \
--disable-doxygen-docs \
--disable-xml-docs &&
make &&
make check
One test, test-autolaunch, is known to fail. There have also been reports that the tests may fail if running inside a Midnight Commander shell. You may get out-of-memory error messages when running the tests. These are normal and can be safely ignored.
--disable-doxygen-docs:
This switch disables doxygen documentation build and install, if
you have doxygen installed. If
doxygen is installed, and you wish
to build them, remove this parameter.
--disable-xml-docs: This
switch disables html documentation build and install, if you have
xmlto installed. If xmlto is installed, and you wish to build
them, remove this parameter.
--disable-static: This
switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.
--enable-user-session: This
parameter enables per-user DBus sessions with systemd.
--with-system-socket=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:
This parameter specifies the location of the system bus socket.
--enable-tests: Builds
extra parts of the code to support all tests. Do not use on a
production build.
--enable-embedded-tests: Builds extra
parts of the code to support only unit tests. Do not use on a
production build.
--enable-asserts: Enables
debugging code to run assertions for statements normally assumed to
be true. This prevents a warning that '--enable-tests' on its own is only
useful for profiling and might not give true results for all tests,
but adds its own NOTE that this should not be used in a production
build.
The configuration files listed above should probably not be
modified. If changes are required, you should create /etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf and/or
/etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf and
make any desired changes to these files.
If any packages install a D-Bus
.service file outside of the
standard /usr/share/dbus-1/services
directory, that directory should be added to the local session
configuration. For instance, /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services can be added
by performing the following commands as the root user:
cat > /etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf << "EOF"
<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
"-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>
<!-- Search for .service files in /usr/local -->
<servicedir>/usr/local/share/dbus-1/services</servicedir>
</busconfig>
EOF
There are many methods you can use to start a session daemon using the dbus-launch command. Review the dbus-launch man page for details about the available parameters and options. Here are some suggestions and examples:
Add dbus-launch to the line
in the ~/.xinitrc file that
starts your graphical desktop environment.
If you use gdm or some other display
manager that calls the ~/.xsession file, you can add
dbus-launch
to the line in your ~/.xsession file that starts your
graphical desktop environment. The syntax would be similar
to the example in the ~/.xinitrc file.
The examples shown previously use dbus-launch to specify a
program to be run. This has the benefit (when also using
the --exit-with-x11
parameter) of stopping the session daemon when the
specified program is stopped. You can also start the
session daemon in your system or personal startup scripts
by adding the following lines:
# Start the D-Bus session daemon
eval `dbus-launch`
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
This method will not stop the session daemon when you exit
your shell, therefore you should add the following line to
your ~/.bash_logout file:
# Kill the D-Bus session daemon
kill $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PIDA list of the installed files, along with their short descriptions can be found at ../../../../lfs/view/systemd/chapter08/dbus.html#contents-dbus.