Re: [gnome-love] Giving up on compiling GNOME :( [Was: Compiling 2.15.4]

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 8/8/06, Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> wrote:
> As you've seen I've struggle dover the last few weeks with compiling
> GNOME, first 2.15.4 then 2.15.90.  It's been painful, though still a bit
> of fun.  In the end it turned out to be too much work.
>
> All I really wanted was to grab epiphany from CVS and compile it.  It
> seemed like a good idea to take the road less travelled and compile all
> of GNOME 2.15 to make sure I got all the dependencies.  It turns out the
> road less travelled is so for a reason.
>
> I still managed to compile epiphany, but I based it on Debian's own
> packages as far as I could---I only used jhbuild to compile glib and
> gtk+.  That was all I needed in the end.

I understand; you have gone through a lot.  But, remember to keep in
mind that you've made the path a little smoother for others to follow.
So your effort is definitely not in vain.

If you feel like trying again at some point in the future, I'll point
out two things: (a) if you want to compile from tarballs, GARNOME is
much better tested and more widely supported than the jhbuild tarball
modulesets, (b) the Build Brigade will eventually get going and beat
these build problems into a thing of the past, or so I expect.  :-)

Thanks for all your efforts,
Eljiah