Re: GNOME vs GNU gcc & glibc

[Sergio Brandano <sb dcs qmw ac uk>]

 Hi,

 I see that I didn't make my comment clear.

 Some people, and I am one of them, prefer compiling the software
 than unpacking rpms.

 Not all of them necessarily develop everything they install.

 I am an *user* of GNOME, and I am frustrated by the time and effort
 that is required when installing GNOME from source.

 The mayor difficulty I encountered is compiling the core of GNOME.
 The difficulty also consisted in identifying what that core is.
 By following the official instructions from www.gnome.org, more than
 18 tar-balls are required for creating a system suitable for GNOME
 libs. This humus is relevant for the GNOME project until the core of
 GNOME *strictly* requires it. It is important, in my opinion, that
 the GNOME project will soon make clear statements about what is the
 core and what is not, as well as what are the up-to-date dependencies
 with *all* the tar-balls.

 My proposal for a more self-contained distribution shall not be
 intended as a challenge for re-writing already existent code.
 If the core of GNOME requires a certain feature F, then copy the
 source code for F into the souce tree for gnome-core (or whatever)
 and allow configure to set up F as well. I beleave the developers for
 F would gladly agree on it; if they do not, then replace F with
 something else. At that point it will be evident that GNOME is no
 more than a collection of graphics libraries, and we can write
 applications on top of it.


 Re to Miguel de Icaza:
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>>>In file included from boot.c:21:
>>/sw/gnome/include/gnome-xml/parser.h:142: error.h: No such file or directory
>You have an outdated version of gnome-xml.

 I have libxml-1.0.0 installed (is this lib part of the core?)

>I have been looking at your compile problems, and this message made me 
>believe you have a really broken compilation system:
>>>io.c:21: sys/select.h: No such file or directory
>Probably you have some missing files in /usr/include or a disk crash
>killed some of them?

 I scanned my whole tree, from /, and no sys/select.h file exist.

 Regards,
 Sergio