Re: [gnome-love] Jhbuild problem - 1 out of many...

[Luis Menina <liberforce fr st>]

Paolo Borelli a écrit :

> Il giorno gio, 20-01-2005 alle 00:45 +0100, Luis Menina ha scritto:
>  
>
> > Someone (pbor) told me on #gnome-love that the debian version was 
> > patched against this, but the libtool used is the one retrieved with 
> > "jhbuild bootstrap", that is libtool-1.5.10...  so the distro's libtool 
> > is not used.
> >
> > [liberforce localhost liberforce]$ jhbuild run which libtool
> > /opt/gnome2/bin/libtool
> >    
>
> I probably wasn't very clear... the libtool version which comes with
> jhbuild should be ok since it contains the patch that fixes that bug:
> the patch is not included in the original tarball, however it is
> automatically applied by jhbuild before building libtool.
>
> The patch can be found in the jhbuild/patches directory.
>
>
> So what I would try is:
> - make sure that jhbuild is up to date (cd jhbuild; cvs up)
> - rebuild libtool with jhbuild, by running bootstrap: unfortunately
> jhbuild pretends to be too smart and doesn't seem to want to rebuild
> libtool (it just exits sayng success)... you have two way to work around
> this: the first is applying the patches by hand and rebuild libtool
> manually, the other is to edit jhbuild/jhbuild/modtypes/tarball.py
> commenting out (add a # at the beginning of the line) lines 105 and 106
> in the function do_start.
>
> Hope that helps
>
> paolo
>
>
>  
Thank you for yor help paolo, I had just too much problems and had to 
restart it all from scratch.
I'm starting to think that the "jhbuild buildone xxxx" command is no as 
good as I thought first, and it seems that some things had been 
installed without having all their dependences met.

Anyway, I do not have this libtool problem anymore and I understood a 
little more how jhbuild works... but gst-plugins still doesn't 
compile... and the error is different.

3 weeks that I started with jhbuild and it still doesn't work... 
sometimes it works, sometimes when restarting from scratch, things that 
used to work are broken... I just don't understand why...

Well anyway, I want to give a hand to gnome, so I hope it will be ok on 
my machine... one day, maybe... After that i'll be able to give a look 
to gtk tutorials, and also to libburn, that seems to need more contributors.

Thanks for your help, i'll try again on #gnome-love to fix my problems 
with jhbuild. Oh, well, there's at least one thing I learned : jhbuild 
isn't as smart as you think. When it doesn't want to rebuild something, 
and you want to force it to (for example a module generate by "jhbuild 
boostrap"), you just have to delete the entry for this module in 
/opt/gnome2/share/jhbuild/packagedb.xml (if /opt/gnome2 is your gnome 
install path).

Thanks for your help.

Luis