Hi. I posted here last week about getting started compiling gnome. I thought I'd give you some feedback on the things I've tried & the problems I've encountered.
Firstly, before I asked on this list I looked on the website. http://developer.gnome.org/ is the logical place to start, and the 'Getting Involved' link on that page is where I imagine most people would go. This leads to http://developer.gnome.org/helping/ and after that it gets quite confusing. I would suggest that a link to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeLove be placed on the /helping/ page, as at the moment I don't see a way to get to it from the gnome site. Also perhaps a mention of jhbuild on http://developer.gnome.org/tools/. Someone suggested I look at Developing with Gnome [http://www.gnome.org/~newren/tutorials/developing-with-gnome/] I like the 'Things You Do Not Need To Learn Yet' page :) I suspect the rest of it is too advanced for someone who doesn't have any C++ background. I tried compiling the first example, and I got an error about 'Package libglade-2.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.' The Gtk2::GladeXML page could perhaps list the packages that are required. I'm guessing libgladexml-perl, but I'm not entirely sure. Moving on... I followed the instructions for jhbuild on http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildOnUbuntu. A early and simple problem I had was that ~/bin wasn't in my path. For true idiot-proofing, the README file in jhbuild could make a brief mention of this in the 'Configuring' section. With the JhbuildOnUbuntu page I've had these problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ jhbuild bootstrap I get: jhbuild: Can't create /opt/gnome2/share/aclocal directory I created the folder & it worked properly. (Though it does a HUGE amount of stuff... the guide could perhaps warn that this is going to happen.) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ jhbuild sanitycheck install prefix is not writable This is down to the line prefix = '/opt/gnome2' in the sample config. The config does warn it needs to be writable, but it might be better to either use folder within the user's home in the sample, or include the command to make /opt/gnome2 user-writable. I fixed this problem and tried again: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ jhbuild sanitycheck automake-1.7 not found automake-1.8 not found automake-1.9 not found thanks everyone for your suggestions :) Joachim ___________________________________________________________ To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. http://uk.security.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnome-love mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love
