Re: Gnome binary distribution for solaris ?

[Brian Kurotsuchi <bkurotsu lug ee calpoly edu>]

Well folks,

I'd certainly be willing to do this.  I'd be willing to package the core
libraries:
gtk+
imlib
libxml
libghttp
libgtop
glibc
gnome-libs
gnome-core
control-center
users-guide
ORBit

This may be more than I can chew, but it seems that these will be the ones I
would be building for myself anyway.  Many of the libraries which gnome
depends on should not be such a moving target as gnome, so maybe we can
consider those one-time build and package tasks.

Some one that has a fresh Solaris system around that is willing to test the
packages would be most helpful.  Otherwise we'll just have to chug along until
someone complains about a package problem.

BK

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Quoting Gleef (dzol@virtual-yellow.com):
> 
> On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Brian Kurotsuchi wrote:
> > I'm running Solaris 2.6 and did get Gnome working after a lot of work...
> > 
> > As I often comment to my roommate, you're basically building a Linux box
> > in /usr/local when you try to get Gnome going.  Here's a semi-complete list
> > of what I installed to get Gnome going:
> > 
> > egcs
> > gnu make
> > libz
> > libjbig
> > HDF image support
> > gdb
> > libtiff
> > libungif
> > libjpeg
> > libpng
> > Imagemagick
> > automake
> > autoconf
> >    - GNU m4 need to build this
> > libtool
> > libdb (Berkeley)
> > python
> > GNU tar (control-panel tarball gives a checksum error with Solaris tar)
> > GNU gettext
> > gawk
> > flex
> > 
> > Let's just say, it is a LOT of work.  Half of the above I had installed before
> > even trying to build Gnome.  I probably missed something from the above list
> > too.  And of course there is a list just as long when you actually get to the
> > Gnome installation instructions.
> > 
> > I've thought about doing a Solaris package for Gnome, but it would take all
> > year to package the above support software.
> 
> You wouldn't need to package all of it, a lot of what you listed is
> packaged already.  We don't really need packages of the compiler stuff
> (egcs, autoconf, etc).  What would be useful would be:
>   * Packages of the general-use libraries that GNOME needs but Solaris
>     doesn't ship with (eg. libpng, Imlib, glib, gtk+, etc.)
>   * Packages of the main GNOME modules (eg. gnome-libs, gnome-core, mc,
>     etc.)
> 
> I have no access to Solaris boxes, so I can only help with advice, but we
> seem to have a LOT of Solaris users interested in GNOME.  Rather than each
> person having to forge their own way from scratch, it would be useful if
> some of the people who have made it put the extra effort to package it for
> those who follow.  Perhaps if a few of you get together so nobody has to
> do all the packages?