Re: [gnome-love] Gnome Tinderbox

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

Note that I expect this message to be completely outdated by the
end of the weekend, so if you are reading this in the archives 
after Gnome 2.8 comes out, you probably want a different message.

On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 09:02:31PM +0200 or thereabouts, Paolo Borelli wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 20:39 +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote:
>
> > I'm asking because I try to build gnome from cvs with jhbuild and some
> > modules seem to keep on failing on me
>
> The modules from gnome cvs built by jhbuild should always be buildable
> and if a compile problem arises it is usually fixed very fast.
> On the other hand when using jhbuild (or some other build scripts) it's
> common to stumble in some recurring problemes, for example the ones due
> to a non perfect setup of autotools etc.
> Some of these common problems are listed in Elijah's guide at
> http://www.gnome.org/~newren/tutorials/developing-with-gnome/

Urf. I have been playing with jhbuild today. I have been having
problems. And I don't see them in the tutorial. I presume the
majority are transient (po files for example) or just less
commonly met (opteron box). 

Is the jhbuild bootstrap stuff still relevant in that document?
I used "sanitycheck" and it reported no problems on a FC2 box.

However..

shared-mime-info dies due to automake issues. When jhbuild told me, 
I went to its shell, and in the shared-mime-info directory (where
I was by default) did "cp ../libxml2/mkinstalldirs ." in order to
provide the mkinstalldirs it was missing and then hit ^D to get back 
to jhbuild. It works happily then. 

gnome-vfs died due to 64-bit issues. I had to add "(long long)"
into two files to get that to build.

libxklavier (from freedesktop.org) gave me nightmares which 
seem related to 64-bit again. In the end, I skipped it, so 
jhbuild then decided I didn't need gnome-applets or control-
center (true enough).

libcroco was next to die. Again, I presume 64-bit troubles.
I had to change a gsize to a gsf_off_t (line 61 of rsvg-gz.c).

next, the po/gu.po file in procman was broken. There were
missing # marks in two places at starts of lines (the ones
it complains about: there are commas where they should be "#,"s).
I added those back in and ignored the further complaints about
plural_forms because they don't actually cause msgfmt to 
fail and I didn't care :)

gstreamer followed, and died (again, 64bit?). I had to delete 
a warning line but that was all. It build and installed then.

gst-plugins was next, looked for the installed gstreamer,
couldn't find it, and then things went badly weird. I harangued 
thomasvs on IRC and he knows what should be happening but is now 
wondering why it doesn't. (again, 64-bit)

None of these are yet in bugzilla because I intended to put
them all in at once. Since it looks like it is going to take
longer than I expected to get a (half-?)working desktop, I
shall bugzilla them tomorrow, to ensure your promise that it
is "usually fixed very fast" can be fulfilled. :)

Anyway, if any of those are the modules you're having trouble
with, I am sure that that the procman/po/gu.po fix will work
anywhere. I am not so sure that any of the rest will help. But
just in case, there you go.

Telsa