Jonathon Jongsma wrote: > On 1/23/08, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 23:18 -0500, José Alburquerque wrote: >> >>> I've started using jhbuild to let it handle dependencies for me and >>> followed the basic instructions in the manual for configuring it but >>> each time I try to build something, it seems to be using tar balls >>> instead of using svn. Am I doing something wrong? >>> >> It uses tarballs for one or two things. Does it use svn when you do, for >> instance, "jhbuild buildone glibmm" ? >> > > Just to add a little more information -- anything that's not > explicitly part of GNOME (i.e. an 'external dependency' such as > libxml2, cairo, etc) uses tarballs. > > In the past, these were also checked out from the version control > system, but that made jhbuild difficult to build since it was prone to > build failures from development versions of external libraries. So a > change was made so that only things that are actually a GNOME project > should be pulled from svn. > > Thanks. Really appreciate this info. It clears things up a lot.
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