Re: Some questions concerning GSoC 2012

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Phitherek_ schreef op 03.04.2012 00:25:

> 3. In your GSoC info page you say, that I should fix some minor bug
> before applying. I planned to try it, but I could not build Epiphany
> with JHBuild. The main problem is, that I use Arch Linux, where since
> some time ago the default version of Python is Python 3 (and this is
> "python"), and Python 2 is executed by "python2". The buildscripts 
> are
> written in Python 2, but they all have "python" and not "python2" in
> the #!. This is, however, kind of easy to fix. I got stuck when I
> tried to build glib and I had to remove more and more lines in the
> script to work - in the end that had not worked anyway. It was
> something with "parser.py". Could you help me also with that?

Does this page help you with your problem?
http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildDependencies/ArchLinux

Otherwise, you may try installing a Gnome 3.4 live image under 
VirtualBox and work from there.

regards,

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Reinout van Schouwen