Re: [Fwd: Re: jhbuild with tarballs]

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 7/26/05, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> This reply from Jamesh is probably a good clue for anyone trying to
> create a jhbuild tarball moduleset that can be easily updated. I didn't
> get around to it.

Well, I did that...and in so doing ran across the same thing that
caused your original inquiry to James and think I discovered the
problem:

> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>
> To: Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>
> Subject: Re: jhbuild with tarballs
> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 11:19:21 +0800
> Murray Cumming wrote:
> 
> >Hi James,
> >
> >I'm trying to create a completely-tarballs gnome-2.10 moduleset for
> >jhbuild. I've either found a strange bug in jhbuild or there's an error in
> >my .modules file? I'd really appreciate it if you took a quick look.
> >
> >The problem is that it is skipping the pango module, and even seems to
> >ignore it when I do a buildone.
> >
> >For instance, when I do
> >  jhbuild --moduleset=gnome-2.10tarballs.modules buildone pango
> >I get just
> >[murrayc localhost murrayc]$ jhbuild
> >--moduleset=./gnome-2.10tarballs.modules buildone pango
> >*** success *** [1/1]
> >
> >However, pango does show up in the list when I do
> >jhbuild --moduleset=./gnome-2.10tarballs.modules list pango
> >
> >
> >
> That's weird.  I just tried the same command, and it looked okay here
> (it started downloading the pango tarball).  Does its behaviour change
> if you use a full path for the modules file?

Yes, but if you build it once and then try to build again I believe it
will skip it.  $prefix/share/jhbuild/packagedb.xml tracks that it was
successfully installed so it thinks (incorrectly in our cases) that
there's no point going through the configure/build/install stages
again.  This is problematic if the original build needs to be redone
for whatever reason (lots of crap in /usr/local that needs to be
mounted over in order for gnome to actually build, in my case).

Elijah