Re: gnome developer docs - not sgml

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr wrote:
> 		
> i have to report, that also i gave up trying to compile gnome-libs on solaris
> 2.6. In the process of trying to make it work, i had to compile so much gnu
> stuff that other things got broken.

How is the GNU stuff going to break other things? 

> it would be nice to have a list of all
> other packages that gnome-libs needs for compiling.
> 

This should be on www.gnome.org or in the FAQ, I think.

> ok too bad for me then :(, i suppose this mean it is no more a goal for gnome
> 		to compile on any major UNIX plateform ?)
> 

It does compile and compilation is a goal. It just requires a bunch of
libraries. 

We could duplicate the code in those libraries, and ship that with Gnome,
but it would just cause bloat and a maintenance nightmare. Better to
install the libraries.

There is a difference between non-portable and hard to compile. (many
people never get it to compile on Linux.) We can't help it if Solaris has
a crappy packaging system and doesn't ship with as much software as Linux
or FreeBSD. Gnome will run on Solaris, but you have to deal with its
weaknesses. 

Havoc