Re: GNOME 1.4beta1 build order conundrum

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Ade Lovett <ade FreeBSD org> writes:

> Whilst building up the 1.4beta1 system for the FreeBSD ports system,
> I ran into an interesting conundrum with the suggested order.
> 
> The original email goes something along the lines of:
> 
>   ... gnome-core ... bonobo ... libglade ...
> 
> Unfortunately, gnome-core-1.3.0, as supplied in the 1.4beta1 directory
> requires libglade to build.
> 
> The conundrum is this.  Is bonobo support in libglade (a) relatively
> stable and (b) worth the effort of dragging in a lot of extra bits
> and pieces to build gnome-core.  Can it even be done -- is there
> a (cyclic) gnome-core dependency in bonobo?
> 
> ie: given that I need libglade to build gnome-core, do I build it
>     with, or without, bonobo?

I don't believe Bonobo requires gnome-core, so you can move it
up in the order.

I don't know the status of Bonobo support in libglade, or whether
anybody is using it. (I'm pretty sure that none of the core 1.4
packages do, but perhaps Evolution...?)

                                        Owen