Re: Base to Build From

[Sid Boyce <sboyce blueyonder co uk>]

	I have tried various versions of garnome and cvsgnome over quite a 
period and have not ever got a successful build. If you start out with a 
working gnome from a distro, nearly every new app you try to build will 
require a succession of update upon update packages, you get so far and 
run out of road and you are left with a broken desktop into the bargain. 
I live in hope of success one fine day, but it seems to be in shifting 
sand. I appreciate the guys are working hard toward that end, but it may 
be a long hard slog from where we are now.
	I suspect the developers' boxes have quite a few things installed that 
makes for success. The docs give a list of pre-reqs, but that's never 
the full list.
Regards
Sid.

Ed Robitaille wrote:
> I have been running gnome 1.? from SuSE 7.3 for several years. It seems
> that most of the software that is now being  written is for Gnome2. I
> decided that it was time to migrate to Gnome2. Someone recommended
> garnome to me.
> It has been a frustrating experience. Garnome is not for a novice.
> I fully endorse the premise that it will supply the 'latest bleeding 
> edge' of gnome. In reading the mail archives, and from personal
> experience, there appears to be a  continuing problems with not having
> correect versions of xrender, docbook, gcc and so on.
>
> I see from the site garnome has been aprogression of updates. I suppose
> could start from the beginning and just keep updating until I am current
> (yeah). On a dial up connection I'll probably die of old age befors
> I get current.
>
> I would hazard to make an assumption that there probably agoodly number
> of people stepping into the middle of an on-going project. I see a need
> for list of base packages (libs, compilers, includes) that are known to 
> work with the current version of garnome down loaded. I see a step in
> the rigth direction with the bootstrap directory.
>
> I'm trying to compile garnome 0.24.2.
>
> Any help woild be appreciated.
>
> Ed


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