Re: [orca-list] SVN gnome.

[Willie Walker <William Walker Sun COM>]

If you like pain, agony, and an unstable system, this is the best thing 
for you.  :-)  http://www.jamesh.id.au/software/jhbuild/ helps you 
achieve this discomfort with relative ease.  In addition, the only 
advice I'm willing to provide you with using jhbuild is to not attempt 
it.  ;-)

Will

Chris Norman wrote:
> Hi all,
> I had a thought this morning...
>
> Would it be possible (if a little unstable) to build all of gnome from
> svn? This would be easier to keep updated.
>
> What I have in mind, is installing everything from SVN, and keeping the
> sources in somewhere like /usr/share/src/gnome/*. So a cron job could be
> added in cron.daily:
>
> #!/bin/bash
> cd /usr/share/src/gnome
> for FILE in *
> do
> {
> cd $FILE
> svn update
> ./autogen.sh
> make
> make install
>
> Has anyone implemented this sort of thing yet?
>
> Cheers.