Re: Including dependencies

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Jerry Talkington">

> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 06:52:56AM +0200, Jens Bech Madsen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 00:55, Jerry Talkington wrote:
> > > Howdy!
> > > 
> > > Are there any plans on including all of the reqired dependencies (i.e.
> > > becoming completely self sufficient,) or has this been decided
> > > against?
> > 
> > How far do you want to take it? XFree86? gcc? glibc? kernel?

I only want to include things that are difficult to get, and that depends on
the platform to a large extent.

> I'm talking more about things that are included in a GNU system, but not
> a *nix.

> I'm trying to build it on MacOS X now, which is why I was asking.  I'd
> like to keep it within the Garnome build structure, but I guess I could
> just provide a super-patch ;)

It's not too bad on OS X. Look at the bootstrap/ directory to start with;
you won't have to build all of that stuff, but expat, for instance, is not
included with OS X 10.2, but required by fontconfig.

I've been working with a few other platforms, notably OS X, Solaris and
HP-UX, and attempting to get GARNOME building easily on all of these. If it
does, that should cover a fair whack of other systems too.

I have to sync up some changes with Nick though, but I could put out per
platform patches or something in the mean time...

- Jeff

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