Re: The increasing number of modules to be built with jhbuild

[Mikael Hallendal <micke imendio com>]

James Henstridge wrote:
> On 16/09/04 09:20, Mikael Hallendal wrote:

Hi,

> Also note that tarball modules built by jhbuild are _not_ built every 
> time.  Jhbuild stores a build time stamp in the install prefix, and if 
> it has previously built the version of the tarball before, it will be 
> skipped.  If you saw all these tarballs being rebuilt, I assume you were 
> installing to a fresh install prefix :)

Yes, I was installing fresh, great that they are not rebuilt. Thanks.

> Well, you can set up a skip list in your ~/.jhbuildrc like so:
>   skip = [ 'module1', 'module2' ]

Yeah, Glynn told me on IRC, been wanting this for some time :)

> However, there aren't that many tarballs included in a 
> "meta-gnome-desktop" build.  The ones included are:
>
>     * audiofile: I suppose this one could be removed if it is really a
>       problem.  It is included because it used to come from gnome CVS.
>     * hicolor-icon-theme: this one wasn't included in many distros until
>       gnome-icon-theme started to barf if it wasn't installed ...
>     * scrollkeeper: help indexes aren't too useful if you can't write to
>       $sysconfdir ...
>     * gnutls+friends: not included in that many distros currently.

Would it somehow be possible to check whether they already exists on 
your platform? I mean, it's quite cumbersome to wait for a build for 
something that you already have on the platform. Perhaps just check if 
they exist through pkg-config?

Best Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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