Re: Problem building clutter

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 18:53 -0400, Dan Winship wrote:
> Ross Smith wrote:
> > The problem is during stage 3 of the script - it has an error building clutter.
> > 
> > The solution was to touch a file in a directory somewhere, then rerun
> > this stage of the build, and finally run another command, but that's
> > about as much as I can remember :(
> 
> It's not Ubuntu-specific; the clutter source tree is just broken right
> now, and will only build completely if you already have a copy of
> clutter installed.
> 
> The workaround: when the build bombs out, choose "open a shell", then
> type "touch clutter/cogl/Cogl-0.9.gir", then exit the shell and continue
> the build. Then afterwards, do "jhbuild buildone -f -c clutter" to do a
> rebuild and actually generate that file correctly.

I put a fix in Clutter bugzilla at:

 http://bugzilla.openedhand.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1594

(But Dan's workaround is going to be easier than applying my patch if
you just want to get gnome-shell built.)

- Owen