Re: CVS/JHBuild complaints

[Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>]

Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno sab, 22/07/2006 alle 12.48 -0600, Brent Smith ha scritto:
> > This weekend I have tried to build Yelp and all it's dependencies from 
> > jhbuild.  I ran in to quite a few problems, so I'm complaining publicly 
> > here (I know Jeff will hate me for this):
> >
> > * avahi depends on libgdbm;  libgdbm-dev needs to be installed for avahi
> > Do we currently have a list of "external" development libraries that
> > need to be installed in order to compile from JHBuild?  I know there are
> > some recommendations at http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildOnUbuntu in the
> > section "How to prepare your system for Development?"  but this is 1)
> > not distribution agnostic and 2) relatively unmaintained.  Perhaps this
> > could be one of the Build Brigade's responsibilities?
> > (http://live.gnome.org/BuildBrigade)
>
> It's a wiki. Edit the page and add this info, please. There is this page
> too: http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildDependencies

I've editted it for Dapper.  It would be appreciated if people using
other distributions could update the wiki for their particular
distribution.

I don't know if we care about prior versions of GNOME, but I was
thinking it would be nice if this was a table layout, color coded to
indicate which modules are required for which version.  Then again, I
don't know how many people are building older versions of GNOME from
jhbuild/source...

> > * avahi depends on libglade; need to modify the gnome-2.16 moduleset to 
> > reflect this dependency
> >
> > * avahi depends on pygtk (and pycairo, pygobject); need to modify 
> > gnome-2.16 moduleset to reflect this dependency
>
> Could you please open a bug for jhbuild->modulets (something like
> "missing deps for avahi"), write that info and add myself in CC? I'll
> fix this.

bug filed as 348453

> > * avahi depends on dbus-python and dbus-glib bindings set; dbus-python 
> > and dbus-glib are now in a git repository (bug 347674); need to add to 
> > modulesets and add appropriate dependencies
>
> I've commited the patch just now. Unfortunately no way to build a python
> (setup.py) module in jhbuild.. Or not? Any info? 

There seems to be some preliminary support in jhbuild/modtypes/distutils.py.

Can anyone comment here?  (/me looks at James or Frederic)

> > * dbus-python depends on Pyrex for bindings which aren't included in 
> > jhbuild bootstrap
>
> I don't think we need to put it in bootstrap, but yes, we need it.
> Unfortunately, as above, installation based on setup.py :-(
>
> My suggestion (and the proper solution, I think) is write this info in
> live.gnome.org/JhbuildIssues/* pages. Please create a new page for
> dbus-python and add here relevant info. (download Pyrex, unpack and run
> `jhbuild run python setup.py install`)

Done.  See http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildIssues/dbus-python

> > * dbus-glib fails compilation due to automake failing because of a 
> > missing 'ChangeLog' (f.d.o bug 7540)
> >
> > * dbus-glib/test/glib/test-service-glib.h fails compilation due to a 
> > missing include file (f.d.o. bug 7589)
> >
> > * dbus-glib doesn't install dbus-glib.h include file (f.d.o. bug 7562)
>
> All fixed. So I commited the patch in bug 347674

(two bugs were still marked as NEW there, the other one was ASSIGNED but
they all were fixed), *grumble*

I marked 7540 and 7562 as fixed with links to gitweb commitdiffs.  It 
looks like the "tools" subdir generates the dbus-glib-bindings.h file 
and needs a system message bus running, but it wants to use 
$prefix/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket where $prefix = /opt/gnome2

smitten home:/extra/cvs/gnome2/dbus-glib/tools$ make
DBUS_TOP_BUILDDIR=.. dbus-send --system --print-reply=literal 
--dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus 
org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect > 
dbus-bus-introspect.xml.tmp && mv dbus-bus-introspect.xml.tmp 
dbus-bus-introspect.xml
Failed to open connection to system message bus: Failed to connect to 
socket /opt/gnome2/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory

I updated 7589 regarding this.

> > * PolicyKit needs --disable-docbook-docs, or make fails due to missing 
> > command "no" (f.d.o. bug 7161)
>>
> > * PolicyKit needs --with-pam-module-dir=prefix + '/lib' so it doesn't 
> > try to install into /lib
>
> Add custom rules to general moduleset is not good IMHO. When, for
> istance, bug 7161 will be fixed, the custom rule to general moduleset
> will be deprecated.
>
> As above, open a page on live.gnome.org/JhbuildIssues/

See http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildIssues/PolicyKit

> > * libvolume_id needs to be installed for hal; should this be part of 
> > jhbuild bootstrap or should the user be responsible for installing the 
> > development package from their distro?  I ended up getting around this 
> > by doing the following:
> >
> > cvs -d :pserver:anonymous anoncvs freedesktop org:/cvs/hal co -D 'Jul 10 
> > 18:30:00 2006 UTC' hal
>
> This is a serious issue. libvolume_id should be in udev > 0.9x (or
> similar). So you should install it, maybe breaking your distro.
>
> Should we depend on latest HAL package? I suggest you to open a bug
> about i.

bug 348465

> > Thank you,
>
> Thank your for tracking those stuff.

No problem, it justs seems like things are getting more and more
difficult to build and I want to lower the barrier for
newcomers/testers.

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Brent Smith <gnome nextreality net>
IRC: smitten