Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

[bsquared <bwcode4u gmail com>]

Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> 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.

So if I want to use jhbuild to build X and gnome what would be the 
correct configuration?

Also, xorg lists jhbuild as an option for building all the packages that 
make up X.

Should I install X and gnome to '/opt'?

I like the jhbuild setup and would like to use it to continue building 
my system.  I was thinking it may be a good tool to use to script an LFS 
system build.

Thanks, Brian