At this moment I'm having quite some issues when building released beta tarballs using ./configure && make && make install. Many tarballs are generated with outdated gnome-doc-utils and don't build without regenerating things using gnome-doc-prepare, aclocal and all the other things that have to be done after that. Another issue is quite some --disable-static flags that don't work, it seems some older autoconf version is buggy in generating code for this switch in configure files.
For SVN, I can imagine that it's normal to run ./autogen.sh or use gnome-autogen.sh, but for released tarballs this shouldn't be the case. I think we should pay attention to this issue for the final release tarballs, as that is what people running gnome from source will use when GNOME 2.18 becomes final. Many people don't like the fact that GNOME is 50-100 tarballs with many dependencies to get it complete, but when we have several important packages (gnome-applets, gucharmap, gnome-terminal, gnome-power-manager, file-roller, gnome-utils, totem) that don't compile out of the box, these people will certainly have something to rant about (and to make things worse: ./autogen.sh is not included in tarballs, it's only in SVN (totem and epiphany are an exception here)). _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
