On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 10:06 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:40 -0400, Patrick Hallinan wrote: > > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:24 -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:08 -0400, Patrick Hallinan wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I wish to help with the development of gtk+ but I'm not having any fun > > > > trying to setup a build environment for gtk+. I've looked for help at > > > > www.gtk.org/development.html and developer.gnome.org. I have tried using > > > > jhbuild from http://svn.gnome.org/svn/jhbuild/trunk. No dice. > > > > > > "no dice" doesn't really add up to a bug report on jhbuild. hundreds, > > > perhaps thousands, of people use that as a way to build and maintain the > > > GTK stack from svn. what was your problem with it? > > > > > > > I guess you are saying that I should be using jhbuild to get a gtk+ > > build environment? > > > > I'm using the subversion trunk for jhbuild which I didn't assume was > > stable. I get the output below when I try "jhbuild bootstrap" > > In general, I'd strongly recommend against jhbuild bootstrap. It: > > - May install older versions of components than your system versions, > causing weird problems > - Increases the total amount of things you are building, giving > more possibilities for failure. > > It is definitely a bad idea for Fedora 9, which has nice shiny new > versions of everything. So blow away your install directory and > start over without the bootstrap, and you'll be happier. > > http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildDependencies/FedoraCore > > Has information about what packages you need to install for Fedora. >
I had ignored the FedoraCore link on the jhbuild page because it indicated FedoraCore and not Fedora. I thought that it was old. I installed the missing dependencies and jhbuild sanitycheck gives this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fontconfig-2.6.0]$ jhbuild sanitycheck automake-1.8 not found automake-1.9 not found I ignored that and tried "jhbuild gtk+' but the first package (fontconfig-2.6.0) failed to build. I think that this is the first error: In file included from ../fontconfig/fcfreetype.h:27, from fcftint.h:26, from fcfreetype.c:48: /usr/include/ft2build.h:56:38: error: freetype/config/ftheader.h: No such file or directory Fedora 9 has fontconfig-2.5.0-2. I guess I will file a bug against jhbuild if I can figure out how to. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list