Re: Contributing code

[Christian Persch <chpe gnome org>]

Hi;

Le vendredi 15 juin 2007 à 02:54 +0200, Stefan Schindler a écrit :
> I'm using Debian Lenny which carries out version 2.14 of Epiphany. But 
> the stable version is 2.18.1, and unstable 2.19.2(!). So I need some 
> testing environment to be able to build the newest sources. The best 
> solution for me would be to keep my system as is. Of course that's not 
> really possible because of dependencies to other libs etc. Now my 
> question is: can you give me some tips or hints on how to establish an 
> environment that fits all needs to build the newest sources? (maybe a 
> chrooted environment, or even a VM?)

You could use http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild to build epiphany and the
dependencies that you don't have already. After doing

 apt-get build-dep epiphany-browser

which should install the build deps for the version that you have from
your distro, you can use "jhbuild buildone"s to build the dependencies
that you don't have already. It's _not_ necessary to do a full jhbuild
build of all of GNOME; I think it should suffice to buildone these
modules: glib pango gtk+ hicolor-icon-theme libbonobo libgnome
libbonoboui libgnomeui epiphany.

Note: there will be a problem with "libtool" files in /usr/lib. These
files are unnecessary; you can just move them away to a safe place
("mkdir ~/Abfall; sudo mv /usr/lib/*.la ~/Abfall" for example :).
(Remember to do that after every upgrade with apt-get).

Regards,
	Christian