Re: Git build problems

[Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>]

On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 01:49 +0300, Anton Keks wrote:
> Thanks a lot, Ruben!
> 
> The instructions have worked for me. I have made the
> http://f-spot.org/How_To_Build_from_HEAD a bit more up-to-date and
> have included a link to your instructions there to help all frustrated
> people out there, too. However, it seems that the page needs a more
> serious rewrite.

Thank you Anton! You're right about that page, needs further reworking.

> One additional problem I have run into with jhbuild was that I have
> already done checkout of gtk-sharp before and run the ./bootstrap-2.4
> there with another prefix. Jhbuild didn't run bootstrap again and have
> installed gtk-sharp under the old prefix, afterwards f-spot build
> failed, of course. Reconfigure the gtk-sharp manually (./configure
> --prefix=/opt/gnome), if you run into this problem.

I had this too, you have to autogen again ("jhbuild build -a" also
works). After that, things should work fine.

> And reverting of a commit in gtk-sharp is a must in Ubuntu, too. This
> is the cause why I couldn't get the latest f-spot running before. Is
> there an official fix planned?

Okay this is bad. I'm looking into this with Stephane to get it sorted
out ASAP.

> On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 12:04 AM, Ruben Vermeersch <ruben savanne be>
> wrote:
>         Quite a lot of people seem to be having trouble building from
>         git.
>         
>         I've written up some instructions here:
>         
>                http://yokohama.savanne.be/tmp/f-spot-from-git.txt
>         
>         This should get you building. Feedback welcome, I'm on #f-spot
>         (rubenv)
>         if you have trouble.
>         
>         Ideally this should be on the website. Am too busy with the
>         master
>         thesis to do that now.
>         
>         
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