On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 11:04 +0000, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > hi Jan; > > On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 11:44 +0100, Jan de Groot wrote: > > > 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)). > > I usually smoketest every gnome-utils tarball on my edgy box, to see if > it passes make distcheck outside the jhbuild jail where I distcheck from > SVN. if there are any issues, please open a bug with the autotools > versions you are using, so that I don't loose track of this. > > ciao, > Emmanuele.
Ubuntu Edgy ships with gnome-doc-utils 0.8, which is incompatible with the 0.9.1 I have on my system (yes, still need to update to 0.9.2). As gnome-doc-utils 0.9.2 is the one that is shipped in the GNOME 2.17.91 desktop release, the tarball for packages inside this release should be generated with that. All gnome-doc-utils build problems can be solved by regenerating the gnome-doc-utils.make file that comes with the tarball release. I don't know if the tarball is compatible with older gnome-doc-utils though, but as 0.9x. is more strict than 0.8.x, I doubt it would give problems with that. For the autotools version: at this moment I've only found file-roller and control-center to be affected, the other packages don't include static files when building with --disable-static. A bug for file-roller is still open, the bug for control-center has been closed as NOTGNOME, as it's not a problem with the GNOME source, but with the generated tarball when generated by a buggy version of autoconf/make. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
