On Sat, 2008-11-01 at 15:09 +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote: > I checked out clutter from svn, running OS X 10.5 PowerPC. > > Getting things up and running was not entirely a breeze. This message > is to help others, and/or to report bugs.
to report bugs you should use bugzilla: http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Clutter > > 1. ./autogen.sh on OS X > > It gives an error; however, isn't ./autogen.sh supposed to just > create the configure etc. files. > Now it seems to me, it's actually running them, and failing because > of not having --with-flavour=osx parameter. > > ./autogen.sh > ... > checking for XCOMPOSITE extension >= 0.4... found > checking GL/gl.h usability... no > checking GL/gl.h presence... no > checking for GL/gl.h... no > configure: error: Unable to locate required GL headers > > This is a bug, right? no, it's not. the default backend is the GLX one. autogen.sh will pass the command line arguments to the configure script afterwards, so: ./autogen.sh --with-flavour=osx will run ./configure with the checks to build the native OSX backend. > 2. ./configure --with-flavour=osx [--includedir=/sw/include] > > This works nice. I'm not sure if '--includedir' was actually even > needed; that's where fink installed libraries live. it should not be needed *unless* you need a separate location to install/find header files. > 3. Documentation > > TODO from svn seems WAAAAAY out of date: yes. we use Bugzilla to track requests for enhancement, bugs and new features. > << > $LastChangedDate: 2007-12-24 14:13:31 +0200 (Ma, 24 Jou 2007) $ > > << > > README: > << > Clutter it an open source software library for creating fast, visually > << > > Find the fault?=) well spotted. > 4. If things don't work out > > The following fink packages are probably required: > > sudo fink install glibc2-dev pango1-xft2-ft219-dev > > It shouldn't take long that someone makes a clutter package to fink > itself. Then all that would be needed is: > > sudo gink install clutter Clutter already builds with jhbuild[0] and MacPorts. if you want to start a fink package you're very welcome to do so. ciao, Emmanuele. +++ [0] http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild -- Emmanuele Bassi, Intel Open Source Technology Center -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
