just built garnome on Debian Woody...

["Mr. Denis A. Saveliev" <dsavel kodeks karelia ru>]

Hi!

Thanks all people for Garnome!

I'm not a programmer, I just dared to try it... My first try building it 
ended some monthes ago in some error I couldn't manage to solve. Well, 
now it took 3 days for me, (3 nights actually :)
I have solved lots of troubles, mostly by searching this list for errors 
that somebody yet solved. Thanks once more, your postings were useful.

I now stopped at Epiphany compiling. The problem is that I have Mozilla 
1.5 sources, not 1.5b. And I don't want to go back to 1.5b. I decided to 
do a trick and change md5sum and package name in mozilla directory of 
garnome, and that worked, mozilla 1.5 compiled. But then Epiphany 
configuration script said it needs only 1.5b. I downloaded the most 
recent Epiphany 1.1.0 from its homepage in hope that it depends on 
recent mozilla, but it wanted fresh gtk+, more recent that garnome 
built. I stopped at this point because the desktop environment works and 
more changes are too difficult for me. Maybe I'll try to comment out the 
Epiphany instead of doing big library upgrade.

Though I'm not a programmer, I would recommend developers some things:
- It would be very useful to have a full list of downloads that garnome 
perform, just to have possibility to download all packages somewhere and 
take it home to build, for people like me who don't have fast connection 
at home.
- pay more attention to define the compiler version at the very 
beginning of compilation. Maybe it would be useful to do some global 
configuration pre-search just for compilers and libraries needed for the 
whole meta-desktop to build ? I faced the problem that I have to get new 
compiler and libraries somewhere in the middle of compilation process, 
because standard (for woody) gcc just couldn't compile it.
- When the compilation stopped because of lack in ncurses-devel package 
(my fault, of course, but - ) it couldn't resume compiling after the 
package was installed, so I couldn't do anything but start compilation 
from zero point. Maybe you should do something with this in the 
distribution. All other missing headers didn't produce such a trouble, 
the compilation could be resumed after the needed package is installed.

The aim of my posting is mostly to thank you all, just for you to know 
that there's another copy of it running, not to bother you with minor 
troubles, so you can do nothing with this :)

Denis.