building garnome-2.10.0 on a PPC under YDL-4.0.1: desktop

["Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D." <joseph_sacco comcast net>]

Finished building the desktop.

Discussion:
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* HAL & DBUS

YDL-4 provides DBUS-0.22, but not HAL. Versions of HAL prior to 0.4.6 do
*not* work on a PPC running YDL-4. Garnome-2.10.0 provides HAL-0.2.98.

I believe it would be safe to update garnome to HAL-0.4.7. The HAL 0.4.x
branch works with linux kernels as early as 2.6.8 and with udev/hotplug.
I have successfully used HAL-0.4.7 with a linux 2.6.10 kernel, udev-024,
and MAKEDEV-3.3. 

I would not recommend updating garnome to HAL-0.5.0. The HAL 0.5.x
branch requires a linux kernel 2.7.10, udev 50, and using /sbin/udevsend
as the hotplug multipexer/helper.

One small issue... It is necessary to rebuild DBUS to add the
mono-bindings to build beagle.

* gnome-system-monitor
As reported by Bob and Beniot...  Remove the patch from the makefile.

* firefox /epiphany
YDL-4 ships with mozilla-1.7.3, which is sufficient to build epiphany.
This time around I let garnome build firefox, which worked.

I puzzled over the contents of mozconfig-firefox.  I believe that some
of the "disable" statements may be unnecessary. Firefox is pretty good
at determining what your system does and does not have.

Onwards to bindings...

-Joseph

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