Re: Ubuntu intrepid packages required for compilation

["Stuart Langridge" <sil kryogenix org>]

>> libgconf2-dev git-core gtk-doc-tools libgl1-mesa-dev mesa-common-dev
>> mesa-common-dev libffi-dev libgtk2.0-dev flex build-essential curl
>> xulrunner-1.9-dev
>
> Sounds fine,  though about half of these are covered by generic GNOME
> build deps; I've been telling people on Ubuntu to do: "apt-get
> build-dep gnome-panel metacity" as a first approximation.

Quick patch to gnome-shell-build-setup.sh to do this, as per
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/SwatList.

sil

--- gnome-shell-build-setup.sh.orig     2008-11-26 21:45:50.000000000
+0000
+++ gnome-shell-build-setup.sh  2008-11-26 21:45:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -49,11 +49,19 @@

 system=`lsb_release -is`
 if test x$system = xUbuntu -o x$system = xDebian ; then
-    if dpkg --status xulrunner-1.9-dev > /dev/null 2>&1; then : ;
else
-        echo "Please run, as root, 'apt-get install
xulrunner-1.9-dev' before building gnome-shell."
-        echo
+  reqd=""
+  for pkg in libgconf2-dev git-core gtk-doc-tools libgl1-mesa-dev \
+  mesa-common-dev libffi-dev libgtk2.0-dev flex build-essential \
+  curl xulrunner-1.9-dev; do
+    if dpkg --status $pkg > /dev/null 2>&1; then : ; else
+        reqd="$pkg $reqd"
     fi
+  done
+  if test ! x$reqd = x
+  echo "Please run, as root, 'apt-get install $reqd' before building
gnome-shell."
+  echo
 fi

+
 echo "Done."