On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 13:09:24 -0600, Elijah Newren wrote: [..]
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.
Yeah, that page is a bit depressing. It's good something's being done about it though :-)
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.
Well, airing them out isn't always a bad idea :-) Do you have a link to Frederico's email? (I also don't really know what d-d-l means...) Is there a "GNOME way" of building? (writing autogen.sh, configure.ac, dealing with aclocal and extre m4 scripts, etc.) I've tried finding documentation about it (comparable to Debian's packaging guides) but I've always ended up looking at packages already in GNOME. I've never found anything, instead I've ended up looking at some part of GNOME and tried to adapt that to what I need. That way I never quite know if I'm doing stupid things or not. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus therning org Jabber: magnus therning gmail com http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Albert Einstein
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