I have made this a separate posting from my build woes as it may be of value to the Gnumeric and other communities.
As I had some difficulties doing the Gnumeric build in Ubuntu, which I now believe to be due to the Ubuntu folk having to change a set of library file names because of a name collision between two pieces of software, I have been building in a virtual machine. At first I used VM Ware server free version, but I believe that may be time limited. Now I"m using Innotek's VirtualBox and have found it quite useful, indeed in more ways than just for builds. I have tested copying the VBox "hard drive" of my virtual machine. It's a little big at 5.1GB, but when I got it on a second machine it came up and had preserved the state -- my final error msg was on the screen in the terminal window. It seems to me that a VBox "hard drive" set up to to builds would be a relatively painless way to get more folk able to do the builds. Setting up JHBUILD is non-trivial. I plan to post some notes when (if?) I succeed. However, I know I would have jumped at doing a bittorrent download of a disk image. Am I a late-comer to this idea? It seems a no-brainer except for the file size, which is big, but not exceptionally so. JN _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
