Re: [gnome-love] GNOME Hackers Kickstart Guide 1.0 Released

[Ryan McDougall <NQG24419 nifty com>]

On Tue, 2005-08-03 at 12:15 +0000, madan m raj wrote:
> Hello Hackers,
>
>             Releasing the GNOME Hackers Kickstart Guide 1.0
> Check out the guide at
> http://www.gnomebangalore.org/?q=node/view/649
>
> The guide is for those who like to start hacking GNOME. It includes
> the steps to build GNOME, Tools used, How to Hack gnome, example hack.
> and so on..
>
> Thanks to the GNOME team at gnomebangalore.org who helped me a lot to
> finish this guide.
>
> Happy Hacking
> Madhan Raj M
>   

I read the part on jhbuild with great interest, since I have had
horrible (!!) problems getting anything to build from it, but it
appeared to contain some questionable advice wrt environment variables
IIRC. 

Specifically I was under the impression one of the core features of
jhbuild is that it would hide the complexity of maintaining a module as
big as Gnome in a separate and distinct prefix. Yet you appear to change
a lot of env variables which appear to result in things
like /opt/gnome2/lib showing up in the regular user's LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
But maybe I'm totally wrong.

Also there appear to be env variables, such as ACLOCAL_PATH being
defined as two separate things in two separate places.

Anyways I think its an awesome start, and hope you have time to clear up
and organize some of the things I was confused about. The more the
merrier!

Cheers,
Ryan