[GNOME-my]JHbuild of Gnome 2.5 - march 15

["Ow Mun Heng" <ow mun heng wdc com>]

Hi All,

	This is more of a rant/help_me_i_don't_know_what_i'm_doing kinda
email.

I'm hoping that khairil/colin will pick up on this.

A few days ago, I came across a review of gnome2.5(aka gnome 2.6) and wanted
to
test it out for myself. I also went to the path of jhbuild.

Alas.. It has been a sleepless weekend. Fri/Sat/Sun.

A _lot_ of problems since I didn't know (well) what I was doing.. :)

Background system
RH9

I dl'ed jhbuild, make install, cp sample.jhbuild ~/.jhbuildrc ( initially
i tried using jamesh.jhbuildrc and things were _okay_ I guess.

Then I chaged the install directory from /opt/gtk2 to /opt/gnome2.5 then to
/opt/gnome26 (cause it didn't work... Dunno why. it wasn't cleaning
out the sources..  tried make clean/make distclean.. but old references were
still
there.. ended up re-cvs-ing the whole Darn Tree!!)

After that it proceeded quite OK, a few hangups...

1. In some areas. the translation files for turkish language was screwed up
   It's garbage and not ACSII text as it should be. I just took another look
at
   the cvs repo, it's text. So.. EIther there _was_ a problem and it's just
gone
   now or.. I somehow screw up again..

2. Did anyone run the jhbuild bootstrap command? Anwered the default to all
it's
   questions?? I didn't do it.. Although there were a few items of problems.
(eg
    automake 1.6.3 and automake 1.8.2 which wasn't installed in my system by
    default and since I'm using RH9, updated rpms for these are hard to come
by)

3. Right now.. gnome-terminal meta-gnome-core (what is this?), gtkhtml2
(some 
   dependency prob), yelp, gedit gnomemeeting (due to PWLib not installed. I
have
   no idea what that is..) and meta-gnome-desktop.

I'm logged into Gnome2.5 right now.. but thing are not working as well as
they should.
The spatial nautilus didn't really kick in till a seg fault/error(I can't
rememeber,
it defaulted to the org 2.4 interface) Not sure if I like it or otherwise.. 
It keeps popping up directories after directories. (which is Good. but in
some cases
can get annoying) But still have the choice to use the older nautilus
interface
via - browse-folder

The Wallpaper/background app crashes whenever I press the 'filesystem'
icon.. Since I 
would like to browse to a folder to add a new wallpaper. I'm not really sure
why that 
is. Hmm.. seems like it's not only the wallpaper selector.. Even EOG fails
to work .
(funny thing is.. The one on the Desktop->Computer->filesystem works!!)

OKay... I've rant enough.. If anyone can offer any help.. I'm open to
suggestions..

      
Cheers,
Ow