If you use the last point release moduleset[0] from tarballs I find the experience faster and less error prone.
Then I configure the module I want to hack on to build from master and this usually works, in some weird cases, master requires master from another dependency, but this is very rare and addressable case. [0] ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/teams/releng/3.7.4/ 2013/2/7 Sriram Ramkrishna <[email protected]>: > I'm not sure how I missed this thread.. > > Regarding maintaining jhbuild up to gtk+ - I would actually like to see > this up to at gnome-shell. We have a number of people who I have convinced > to help volunteer to resolve bugs for GNOME 3.7, but are very frustrated > with getting jhbuild to build for them. > > We really should make it a goal to get an SDK for our volunteers to help fix > issues. > > We are considering doing a jhbuild hackfest once a month for volunteers to > learn and understand how to build under jhbuild and grow enough builders to > make it self sustaining. > > But getting a certain set of modules always in buildable state is a great > goal and I hope we can do this. > > sri > > > On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Jean-Baptiste Lallement > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 01/16/2013 07:39 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: >>> >>> Hello Colin, >>> >> Hi Martin, Colin, >> >> >>> Colin Walters [2013-01-15 15:34 -0500]: >>>> >>>> >On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 11:07 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: >>>> > >>>>> >>>>> > >We have experimented with that a bit, by building >>>>> > > >>>>> > > https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Raring/view/JHBuild%20Gnome/ >>>> >>>> > >>>> >Interesting! Looks quite useful. Are you doing anything with >>>> >respect to the "jhbuild sysdeps --install" infrastructure or is >>>> >the system package set maintained manually? >>> >>> Right now in our Juju charm it's a manual list: >>> >>> >>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~jibel/charms/quantal/jhbuild/trunk/view/head:/files/jhbuild.config/gnome-core.sysdeps >>> >>> I'm not quite sure why; Jean-Baptiste, did jhbuild sysdeps not work >>> well enough in principle? >>> >> In Quantal, there was missing dependencies, so I went the straightest way >> and installed them directly. Now that I have a better understanding how >> jhbuild works that's something I want to reconsider for Raring and avoid >> maintaining them in 2 different places. >> >> -- >> Jean-Baptiste >> IRC: jibel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-devel-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Cheers, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
