Re: [gnome-love] feedback on getting started.

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 11/3/05, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:

> Does the gnome website need help with this sort of
> thing?

developer.gnome.org needs lots of help.  I don't know if that's part
of the foundation's having hired Shaun to write some good
documentation or not.  You could try asking on gnome-web-list.

> > Oops, not only did the wiki page you refer to forget
> > to mention that,
> > but I also forgot it in my guide...
>
> Thanks for updating it :)
> However, $WHOAMI doesn't seem to do anything on my
> distro. I assume it's an environment variable? I think
> even newbies will understand something like
> 'username'.

The instructions also added how to set that variable, you must have
forgotten to run that line ("export WHOAMI=`id -un`").  It just sets
it to the username you're running as (note that I instructed this line
be run before logging in as root and to not use a login shell so that
this wouldn't be cleared or reset).

> > <snip>
> > > I fixed this problem and tried again:
> > >
> > > joachim ubuntu:~$ jhbuild sanitycheck
> > > automake-1.7 not found
> > > automake-1.8 not found
> > > automake-1.9 not found
> >
> > Did you repeat the 'jhbuild bootstrap' after fixing
> > up your install
> > prefix so that you could write to it?
>
> I hadn't, but I have now. This is the end of my output
> (there's a lot of it but I think it's all relevant):
>
> test -z "/home/joachim/gnome/lib" || mkdir -p --
> "/home/joachim/gnome/lib"
>  /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install
> /home/joachim/bin/install-check  'libgettextsrc.la'
> '/home/joachim/gnome/lib/libgettextsrc.la'
   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> libtool: install: error: cannot install
> `libgettextsrc.la' to a directory not ending in
> /opt/gnome2/lib
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Earlier, you said you had tried running things, then the failed to
install to /opt/gnome2, then you changed the prefix.  It looks like
you haven't changed the prefix back and you also didn't re-run
autogen.  It appears that you put things into an inconsistent state by
doing this.  I would delete /home/joachim/gnome/* and your
checkoutroot (probably /home/joachim/cvs/gnome2/) and for good measure
clean out /opt/gnome2/ too.  Then restart with the jhbuild bootstrap.

Cheers,
Elijah