Re: gnome developer docs - not sgml

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

In message <199811021632.LAA27566@pretzel.normnet.org>, Jeff Garzik writes:
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| > It's not so much having to convert them, it's what leads up to that.
| > 
| > SGMLtools requires python, so I went and put that on.
| > SGMLtools is expecting TeX from the look of things...
| > Also, when running the make, it was trying to kick of RPM ... sorry, not
| > on Linux and have no need for that.
| 
| I gave up trying to make GNOME work under Solaris (or insert any
| non-Linux platform here).  The dependency tree of required programs was
| just too great, even if gnome-libs itself would compile at all.
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I haven't tried to fit GNOME into my dependency matrix, but the "standard" GNU 
package build for ECE involves a number of packages that want to be built 
twice due to circular dependencies.  Yuck.

Having them, however, GNOME isn't quite as painful to build.