Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

jhbuild is not a general purpose build system for building gnome. It's designed to sandbox a gnome setup and keep anything from interacting with it... like a chroot, but more usable.

The prefix variable defines where things like "bin", "lib" and "etc" go. Because of the sandbox aspect, setting your prefix to "/usr" really defeats the whole point of the system... most people use a place in their userdir or /opt/gnome3 or something. I use $HOME/Source/gnome3/install

jhbuild also has a bunch of hacks suited for gnome. Here, it's trying to create $PREFIX/etc for a sandbox gconf configuration... and failing because you don't have write access to "/usr" so it can create the directory.

On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:23 PM, bsquared <bwcode4u gmail com> wrote:

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:

Interesting approach there.

Does that make sense?  Is it possible?

Have you tried using './configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc' for
jhbuild?

That was a good suggestion.  I should have though of that myself, but no go.  After './comfigure ; make && make install', I run
'jhbuild shell' and it still has error:

jhbuild [ ~ ]$ jhbuild shell

Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/bin/jhbuild", line 31, in <module>
   jhbuild.main.main(sys.argv[1:])
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/main.py", line 130, in main
   config = jhbuild.config.Config(options.configfile)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/config.py", line 194, in __init__
   self.setup_env()
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/jhbuild/config.py", line 448, in setup_env
   os.makedirs(gconfpathdir)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 150, in makedirs
   makedirs(head, mode)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 150, in makedirs
   makedirs(head, mode)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 157, in makedirs
   mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/etc'

I find it odd. On my host system (Ubuntu lucid) jhbuild was installed to ~/.local, but there are no other 'etc' directories either under ~/.local or /usr.

Out of curiosity I created /etc/usr and ran 'jhbuild shell' as above. It succeeded.  I then listed the directory:

bash-4.2$ find /usr/etc -exec stat {} \;
 File: `/usr/etc'
 Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 319934      Links: 3
Access: (1775/drwxrwxr-t)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: ( 9999/ install)
Access: 2011-05-07 14:14:11.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
Change: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
 Birth: -
 File: `/usr/etc/gconf'
 Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 319936      Links: 3
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (10073/ jhbuild)   Gid: (10062/   gnome)
Access: 2011-05-07 14:14:54.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
Change: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
 Birth: -
 File: `/usr/etc/gconf/2'
 Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: 4096   directory
Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 319940      Links: 2
Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (10073/ jhbuild)   Gid: (10062/   gnome)
Access: 2011-05-07 14:15:10.000000000 -0700
Modify: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
Change: 2011-05-07 14:13:38.000000000 -0700
 Birth: -


On my host system these are in /etc.

I would like to avoid having /usr/etc.  Any suggestions?

-Brian

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