On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:44:04 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: >On 8/8/06, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> As you've seen I've struggle dover the last few weeks with compiling >> GNOME, first 2.15.4 then 2.15.90. It's been painful, though still a bit >> of fun. In the end it turned out to be too much work. >> >> All I really wanted was to grab epiphany from CVS and compile it. It >> seemed like a good idea to take the road less travelled and compile all >> of GNOME 2.15 to make sure I got all the dependencies. It turns out the >> road less travelled is so for a reason. >> >> I still managed to compile epiphany, but I based it on Debian's own >> packages as far as I could---I only used jhbuild to compile glib and >> gtk+. That was all I needed in the end. > >I understand; you have gone through a lot. But, remember to keep in >mind that you've made the path a little smoother for others to follow. >So your effort is definitely not in vain.
Yeah, I don't regret doing it at all, though it got a bit frustrating after a while :-) I posted some notes on my build attempts: http://therning.org/magnus/archives/168 http://therning.org/magnus/archives/159 >If you feel like trying again at some point in the future, I'll point >out two things: (a) if you want to compile from tarballs, GARNOME is >much better tested and more widely supported than the jhbuild tarball >modulesets, (b) the Build Brigade will eventually get going and beat >these build problems into a thing of the past, or so I expect. :-) I did try GARNOME on 2.15.4 and it failed in the same way as jhbuild so I never made an effort for 2.15.90. I heard 2.15.91 is around the corner though so maybe it'd be worth taking a look at GARNOME again then :-) I read some post on GNOME planet about doing daily builds of GNOME on different platforms (I vaguely remember a webpage where the results were posted as well). That is using jhbuild, isn't it? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. The right to search for truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true. -- Albert Einstein
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