So I was interested in hacking on GNOME Shell a week or so ago, so I set myself to the task of building it from source. I'd already done this a year or so ago, so I figured it would be relatively simple. It turned out to be a much more involved task than I expected. After fixing a bunch of random breakage in GTK+ and librsvg, and plowing through a bunch of modules that didn't work, I found out that the instructions posted here:
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#Building ... are out of date, and that the canonical way of building GNOME Shell is now via the gnome 3.4 module checked into jhbuild. After finding this out (thanks to whoever helped me out with this on IRC), I did indeed eventually manage to get something going after babysitting the build process and manually installing a bunch of new external dependencies on this machine. I filed a bug about this: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668440 ... but so far haven't received a response. I thought I'd bring this up here, both to highlight the bug itself as well as the issue of keeping build instructions up to date in general. The streamlined approach that existed before was a great boon to potential contributors to gnome shell such as myself, it would be great if we could get that going again. Thanks! -- William Lachance [email protected] _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
