Re: Compiling Jim Picks snapshots

[Raja R Harinath <harinath cs umn edu>]

Phil Dawes <philipd@parallax.co.uk> writes:
> The only way I could get the various gnome modules to compile from Jim
> Picks CVS snapshots (ftp://ftp.jimpick.com/pub/gnome/snap) was to:
> 
> 1) unpack the gnome-* snapshot
> 2) unpack the Gnome-common snapshot
> 3) copy all the autoconf input file type gubbins (macros folder, intl,
> etc..) from gnome-common into the gnome-* snapshot.

Right.

> 4) do aclocal, automake, autoconf (or something like that) (the
> autogen.sh scripts didn't work)

That's right too.  But, why isn't `autogen.sh' working?  Can you send me
a log.

> 5) configure, make etc.. as usual.
> 
> I've noticed that the redhat snapshots only require steps 4 and 5, and
> the autogen.sh script does this for you. Am I doing something wrong, or
> is this the best way of building gnome from Jim Picks stapshots? 

Nope.  This is the way to build from the current snapshots.  Of course,
the `autogen.sh' should have worked.

> How does the CVS repository do this? - are the things from gnome-common
> implicitly copied when you check out the archive?

Yes.  This is achieved by adding a line per module in the
CVSROOT/modules file.

- Hari
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