Re: Configuring jhbuild

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> On 1/23/08, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> 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.

-Jose