Hi, everyone. I've successfully built most of Gnome on a stock Slink system. Three cheers for the Gnome project and the packaging team!
On 12 May 1999 15:41:04 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote : > BTW: compiling gnome is a pain. We _need_ source dependencies Hear, hear. Just for flavour, the gotchas I've found include: - Need to upgrade autoconf, automake, libtool and debhelper - Make sure libjpeg62-dev and not libjpeg6a-dev is installed, or Imlib builds linked against both, and weird stuff happens. - There are a number of minor build breaks or hassles which I don't have time to reproduce and document. An autobuilder would have a lot of trouble just right now. Eg. bug #37226 and more. I think Debian should have high quality Slink gnome binaries, because not everyone can afford to run unstable and building from source is quite a lot of work. Also, Redhat have this shipped :-) Good luck, Gordon <Musing> Building Gnome is pretty mind-blowing: tens of megabytes of code and data wrapped in two-million, five hundred thousand tonnes of spinning build-script... PS: Can debian-gtk-gnome be web-archived? -- We knew we were in trouble when we needed the seventh power-board for the coffee machines. // Gordon Deane // Engineering/Maths // Aust. Nat. Uni //