[anjuta-devel] glib 2.25.15

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi Johannes,

The lastest version of Anjuta needs GLib 2.25.15 which is the 
development version of GLib. So you cannot compile Anjuta with a normal 
system even up to date (I means using the latest release of Ubuntu, 
Fedora, Suse, Mandriva...).

I think you do it on purpose. Then we have get several bug reports, 
especially to remove deprecated features that require to use of the 
latest development version. So, that's fine for me to decide that Anjuta 
needs the latest version of several libraries.


But, then I think it would be nice to add more informations on how to 
compile Anjuta from sources. It will be useful for developers outside 
the core team and even for us.

How do you handle this on your side ? Do you use a development version 
of your distribution ? Do you use jhbuild ?

I have been able to compile Anjuta on a very old system (Red Hat 4.5 or 
4.6) using jhbuild. It takes some time because I have to recompile 
almost the whole GNOME stack. I wasn't able to recompile gdm though due 
to changes in the power management. I got some issues with file 
notification too, this kernel was using dnotify and I think Anjuta uses 
too many monitors for it, so the performance is really bad.
GEdit was working much better because it checks changes on the currently 
open file only.

On my previous system, I have been able to compile Anjuta after 
compiling Glib, Gtk and several other libraries from sources in 
/usr/local. But I have to tune some .pc and .la files in /usr/local/lib 
and /usr/local/pkgconfig due to libraries used by Anjuta and depending 
on Glib and Gtk (all components should use the same version of Glib in 
/usr/local/lib). It's possible but not easy. Do you have a better solution ?

In both case, on things that help is to minimize dependencies and avoid 
mandatory plugins. devhelp by example needs webkit that needs a lots of 
libraries.

Regards,

Sébastien