Re: Can't compile it fellas!

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="L. Henry Williams">

> I have been using garnome*13.something* for like 6 months and loved each
> minute of it. I got interested in updating it, figured I had waited long
> enough, and downloaded the .18 garnome that is currently most current.

The latest stuff has only been posted to the mailing list. See the
hacking-0.19.1 bits.

> It runs for a *long* time (amd800 - 396mb ram) prehaps 2 hours and dies
> with a make error 2. I am having to email the list from windows and I did
> not write the exact error messages down. (sue me)

I'm not going to sue you over it, but I sure as hell can't help you.

> 1. `make install` from meta/gnome-desktop/ downloads a lot of stuff....
> wouldn't it get everything it needed? I see it runs something like a
> configure and checks for compilers,etc for a lot of the downloads... it
> would error out there if it could right? and say "You need susch and such
> .lib" whatever. obviously one shouldnt be root here, right?

Each piece of software may or may not error out sanely.

> 2. I created a 'new' user and tried it and it still bombs out after
> running 2 hours.

No information, can't help.

> 3. After a compile when I try and load it I get the splash screen, but it
> just stalls there and gdm after 30 sec's or so reasserts itself. I can log
> into other users but just not garnome which, of course, is what I want
> given I like bad-ass bleeding edge stuff. Which brings up question #4.

There are lots of posts on the list about issues like this. You need to do a
bit of debugging, and work it out (I would be surprised if it weren't a
fontconfig issue).

> 4. Should I just install Redhat8 and be done????

Yes, or use GARNOME 0.17.x for the stable branch. If you aren't interested
in testing GNOME, GARNOME is not for you.

- Jeff

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