On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 10:59:07AM -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > So, I learn that I am now running the dev ones? And 3.2.0 is latest? And > which 2.* is the latest?
The last *release* of gnome-2 was, I think, 2.32. I'm aware that metacity has 2.34, but that is a gnome-3 fallback package. In general, once the move to gnome-3 started, many packages did not get updated '2' versions (2.9x were development versions for 3.0). In general, gnome packages use the odd=development, even=release convention so 2.30/, 2.32/, 3.0/, 3.2/ were releases but 2.31/ etc were development. There are one or two libraries which happen to be at ftp.gnome.org but seem to follow a different model with 1.5, 1.6, 1.7 etc - for these, it is not clear which, if any, are development. > > More importantly - which packages *in the book* can't be built ? > > Sorry, I cannot remember any more. If I do, I will let you know. > There was a suggestion earlier this week, and it turns out Andy knows of a couple of packages which aren't in the book and need gtkmm-2. A quick grep in the current book shows only gnome-system-monitor referencing gtkmm. Seems too little ... [/me swears] - cdrdao references an external link to gtkmm among others, but those all appear to be the old gnome-2 versions, these are ONLY for the gcdmaster program. I build cdrdao, but without those dependencies, and I suspect that gcdmaster is an obsolete gnome-2 program. I'm still surprised that nothing else in the book uses gtkmm - perhaps there will be other users among the additional gnome packages. > > I intend to build the smallest that I can subset of gnome-3, just to get > gnucash working, but not today or tomorrow. If it proves to need too many > packages or too difficult, I will stick to gnome-2 (probably 2.30.2), as I do > not need gnome, and do it just for that package. I have not yet started, > though. > Interesting. You are the only person who has mentioned using gnucash in recent years. As I maybe said the other day, I tried it once but couldn't get my head around double-entry bookkeeping and found the package too hard to use as a result. Its page in the book has had no love (not even a built-with-lfs-6.5 tag), and I think the version is very old. So, I recommend you try the current version (2.4.10) - this is definitely a gtk+-2 program - and before you try to build anything for it, read the configure script. The aim is to attempt to identify what is needed, and what is optional - without going down too many blind alleys for what turn out to be mac or windows packages! From my experience with gnumeric and abiword, I would not be very surprised if you do not need many gnome packages beyond gtk+-2. Gnumeric benefits from yelp for its included help files, it looks (from the book's 2.2 version) as if gnucash will be the same - that DOES mean a chunk of gnome-3 packages, and a long wait while webkit compiles, but its a runtime assistant so you could build gnucash first. For scrollkeeper in the book's dependencies, probably read rarian (which replaced it) - for gnumeric that is now required, maybe the same is true for gnucash. Actually, maybe it's been required for a long time but nobody noticed because it was always built by the time they got to gnumeric [ or maybe I'm the only one building that ]. Goffice can be built without gnome (except for GConf3) so I hope gnucash has become similarly detached from old gnome. OTOH, I see that PLD, for gnucash-2.4.8, still use libgnome and also libgnomeprint which I stopped building quite a long time ago. So, it's possible we'll have to reinstate some other ancient packages for gnucash. > For WIW, I rewrite (in the sense of write in a different form) below, the > original intention of the post: > Thanks - I've added the files and directories installed by gtkmm-3 to my 'ToDo' list. -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
