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

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 8/10/06, Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 08:44:04 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote:
> >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.
>
> Yeah, I don't regret doing it at all, though it got a bit frustrating
> after a while :-)
>
> I posted some notes on my build attempts:
>
>  http://therning.org/magnus/archives/168
>  http://therning.org/magnus/archives/159
>
> >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.  :-)
>
> I did try GARNOME on 2.15.4 and it failed in the same way as jhbuild so
> I never made an effort for 2.15.90. I heard 2.15.91 is around the corner
> though so maybe it'd be worth taking a look at GARNOME again then :-)
>
> I read some post on GNOME planet about doing daily builds of GNOME on
> different platforms (I vaguely remember a webpage where the results were
> posted as well). That is using jhbuild, isn't it?

Yes, that's using jhbuild and compiling from cvs.  And, well, the
builds haven't successfully built to completion on any of them for
quite some time (checkout out all the red at http://jhbuild.bxlug.be/;
the only green is for someone who only built a single module a few
times).  But the idea is that hopefully if we can make cvs building
less painful, then tarballs automatically become a bit less painful to
build from as well.

The jhautobuild stuff being done by Frederic is one area where we're
starting to tackle automated builds.  Fluendo (or at least Thomas)
will be using the machines purchased for streaming GUADEC to set up
buildbot to get further automated building done.  joseph, from
GARNOME, is also pursuing getting some time on some grid machines
donated by various companies (sun?) for automated building as well.
I've got some ideas I want to try out if I can get a machine for it
(though not until after my dissertation defense).  Federico recently
emailed d-d-l about how much of a joke the current building situation
is, starting a discussion there.  I've done something similar a couple
times this release, even airing a few maintainers out to dry (where I
could have used a bit more tact).  But, anyway, there are various
efforts out there trying to correct the sitution.  As always,
something this global of a scale will take some time to fix, but it
looks like things are moving in the right direction.

Cheers,
Elijah