Re: Help Wanted Installing jhbuild on LFS 6.8

[Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <tshepang gmail com>]

On Sat, 2011-05-07 at 18:53 -0700, bsquared wrote:
> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
> >
> > I would use that package manager of yours to remove jhbuild from the
> > system (uninstall_package jhbuild), and the re-run the conf>make>install
> > commands. This is just a guess, and me hopes someone who understands
> > this technology (can one specify sysconfdir to /etc?) will chime in.
> > Either that or giving jhbuild user write access to /usr/etc, and be done
> > with it.
> >
> 
> I did so after your last message, and bootstrap ran (raises more 
> questions), but I do prefer to use /etc for config files.
> 
> It was explained that jhbuild is intended to be used as chroot (the 
> reason prefix/etc is created). Am I building an interim environment?  Do 
> I use an interim location and then 'make dist'?

Yea, I saw the explanation. Makes sense.

> How is one supposed to install Gnome 3? The web page 
> (http://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/) indicates to use jhbuild.
> 
> I have found no instructions that detail installation.  Perhaps I have 
> not looked in the right place.
> 
> Still open for suggestions.

I would use /opt as jhbuild prefix and see how things churn out. Also,
the only first-class jhbuild target is GNOME 3, meaning that Xorg
support might be broken even, so you might have to follow BLFS Xorg
instructions for it. But try the jhbuild way first, and report issues.
You might pave the way for some of us who find the LFS a bit tedious,
and want to automate it a bit, using a magnificent tool like jhbuild.

Another thing that might help is visit LFS channel and/or the mailing
list. I even think that this thread should have been cross-posted there.