Re: [gnome-love] compiling gnome-hello

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

On 10/24/05, Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com> wrote:

<snip>
> I got a bit lost halfway down the 'Creating Your
> Source Tree' page with all the talk of automake,
> autoconf, etc.

Note that I think any developer guide for beginners that attempts to
start with the autotools is probably doomed to failure as most will
just give up.  Learning about autotools is good, but it ain't basic. 
And trying to wrap your head around it will take forever (which is why
I keep putting it off and only occasionally learn something about it).

<snip>
> Not to be deterred, I tried running autogen.sh and got
> a lot of errors, such as:
>
>   gnome-compiler-flags.m4 not found
>   libtool.m4 not found
>   glib-gettext.m4 not found
>   intltool.m4 not found
>   pkg.m4 not found

I'd suggest installing jhbuild as others have suggested, but these
basically mean that you are missing some build dependencies
(gnome-common, libtool, pkg-config...); jhbuild makes it easier to get
those all installed and working.  :)

> Is there an idiot-proof guide to getting started that
> I haven't found yet?

No, but there are some things out there that may help.  Others have
already pointed you to the how-to-compile-stuff links.  One that Olav
pointed out was a part of my guide (which I'm obviously kind of biased
towards) but it also has some pointers on getting started with
developing  (http://www.gnome.org/~newren/tutorials/developing-with-gnome/);
unfortunately, I haven't had time to update and add my new ideas for
sections for over a year now...

> Failing that, do you need help writing one?

Absolutely.  :-)