On 26 June 2010 23:03, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've got a 6.6 system that I was intending to keep as a sort of "long term > support" version (because it uses a long-term stable kernel), but I'm going > to have to rebuild that because I can't seem to get html5 working on > youtube with midori on gnome-2.28 [ and I just drop everything into /usr on > my own builds - that might be about to change :) ] >
Verging OT for this thread, but after attempting to build xorg in /opt/xorg (needs LIBRARY_PATH - I found an old thread starting at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg04913.html where Dan's comments were particularly useful, as usual. With gnome, the GNOME_LIBRARY_PATH mentioned in the book works for "real gnome packages". Unfortunately, I had decided that things like gLib and dbus should also go into /opt/gnome because they usually benefit from being upgraded for a new gnome version. Similarly, cairo. Abandoned before I'd even built gtk+ : first, I noted that dbus programs need LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be able to find the libs (so, the bootscript would need to be modified), then the killer was that gobject-introspection couldn't find the cairo headers below /opt/gnome. Yes, it can be worked around, but it's not worth the effort. In future, I will avoid /opt as a matter of sanity, and leave it for those people who persist in installing binary software. I've used parts of gnome2 across at least 10 versions, and this is the first time that I've seen enough benefit from a newer version to want to upgrade an older system, so for me /usr it is. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
