Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On 7/18/05, Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com> wrote:
> On 7/18/05, Danilo Šegan <danilo gnome org> wrote:
> > Today at 18:56, Elijah Newren wrote:
> >
> > > > Sane? Insane?
> >
> > > Does it matter?  I think it'd be useful, though I'm betting libwnck
> > > fails and I'll be unable to fix it (I wasn't able to last time I
> > > tried, but thankfully people smarter than I are handling the
> > > releases...)
> >
> > I managed once to build entire Gnome during 2.7 using jhbuild (with
> > features jamesh just introduced back then to build outside of your
> > checkout directory, basically mimicking what distcheck is doing,
> > without the "make check" part :), and I remember having only to fix a
> > few Makefile.am's to use $(top_srcdir) and $(top_builddir) where
> > appropriate.  And yeah, some gtk-doc stuff was causing big problems
> > for me, but I can't remember if I resolved that or I just disabled it
> > at the time. :(
> >
> > So, I think it should be doable, and more than useful!
> 
> Well, ATM, using a simple-but-possibly-wrong hack[1] 10 of the 18 gtk
> dependencies fail distcheck. So... obviously I could be doing
> something wrong (some of the failures seem to indicate 'new'
> dependencies, for example) but it's clearly not going to be a walk in
> the park for this to work.

Turns out that I was incorrectly (read: not at all) enabling gtk-doc,
which explains many of these failures. With gtk-doc turned on and some
tex deps installed correctly, 'make distcheck' works on all gtk deps
except libxml2/libxslt and fontconfig. By tomorrow morning I guess
we'll know how the full stack does.

Luis