Author: randy
Date: 2007-03-18 14:51:46 -0600 (Sun, 18 Mar 2007)
New Revision: 6676
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/gnome/core/libgnomecanvas.xml
trunk/BOOK/gnome/core/orbit2.xml
trunk/BOOK/gnome/gnome-intro.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
Log:
Added a warning to the GNOME introduction section, and links to this warning in
various GNOME package instructions telling to use the stable version of BLFS to
build current GNOME
Modified: trunk/BOOK/gnome/core/libgnomecanvas.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/gnome/core/libgnomecanvas.xml 2007-03-18 19:43:07 UTC (rev
6675)
+++ trunk/BOOK/gnome/core/libgnomecanvas.xml 2007-03-18 20:51:46 UTC (rev
6676)
@@ -59,7 +59,9 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">libgnomecanvas Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
- <para role="required"><xref linkend="libglade"/> and
+ <para role="required"><xref linkend="libglade"/> (ensure you read the
+ <quote><xref linkend="gnome_broken"/></quote> warning before installing
+ the dependencies) and
<xref linkend="libart_lgpl"/></para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/gnome/core/orbit2.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/gnome/core/orbit2.xml 2007-03-18 19:43:07 UTC (rev 6675)
+++ trunk/BOOK/gnome/core/orbit2.xml 2007-03-18 20:51:46 UTC (rev 6676)
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">ORBit2 Dependencies</bridgehead>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
- <para role="required"><xref linkend="libidl"/></para>
+ <para role="required"><xref linkend="libidl"/> (ensure you read the
+ <quote><xref linkend="gnome_broken"/></quote> warning before installing
+ the dependencies)</para>
<bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
<para role="optional"><xref linkend="gtk-doc"/> and
Modified: trunk/BOOK/gnome/gnome-intro.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/gnome/gnome-intro.xml 2007-03-18 19:43:07 UTC (rev 6675)
+++ trunk/BOOK/gnome/gnome-intro.xml 2007-03-18 20:51:46 UTC (rev 6676)
@@ -14,6 +14,16 @@
<title>Introduction to GNOME</title>
+ <warning id="gnome_broken" xreflabel="SVN GNOME is Broken">
+ <para>The <application>GLib</application>/<application>GTK+</application>
+ tool stack in the current SVN book is not compatible with this version
+ of GNOME. If you want to build GNOME using these instructions, you should
+ follow the stable BLFS 6.2.0 book (<ulink
url="../stable/gnome/gnome.html"/>),
+ including
+ using the versions of the packages listed there. The BLFS development team
+ is working as hard as possible to bring the book up to GNOME-2.18.x.</para>
+ </warning>
+
<para>This chapter presents the instructions to install a complete
GNOME-&gnome-version;&gnome-minor-version; desktop environment; and a limited
GNOME 1.4 library environment that is sufficient to run GNOME 1.4
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
===================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2007-03-18 19:43:07 UTC
(rev 6675)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml 2007-03-18 20:51:46 UTC
(rev 6676)
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@
<para>March 18th, 2007</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[randy] - Added a warning to the GNOME introduction section,
+ and links to this warning in various GNOME package instructions
+ telling to use the stable version of BLFS to build current
+ GNOME.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[randy] - Updated to GTK+-2.10.11.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
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