Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]

[Dan Winship <danw novell com>]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 16:06 -0400, Luis Villa wrote:
> On 7/18/05, Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 15:54 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > What's so difficult about jhbuild?  Couldn't we make just make it easier
> > > (such as having jhbuild autodetect stuff in /usr and adjust
> > > PKG_CONFIG_PATH)?
> > 
> > Processing power. Time.
> 
> Also...

Could we just package up the results of the jhbuild in a dumb,
completely mechanical way, such that installing the packages would be
exactly equivalent to running jhbuild? ie, it wouldn't replace or
conflict with your existing GNOME packages, it would just install
everything into its own special prefix. And we could have a single
less-dumb package that tweaked your vendor gdm configuration to add a
"jhbuild gnome" session.

-- Dan