Re: Progress Report - Evolution

[Tadas Dailyda <tadas dailyda com>]

You should use gentoo instead. In that case you would be counting
processor time, not yours :)

I installed anjuta 2 recently too :( If you want IDE, eclipse is far
better.

On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 00:21 +0200, Tobias Mueller wrote:
> As I want to improve evolution, I thought it would be great, having a
> nice IDE for developing. My mentor told me about anjuta and I tried to
> compile it, since there is just a version 1 build in the ubuntu
> repositories.
> 
> I first tried to compile it myself, but it was not easy to find the
> dependencies (and finally get them installed). My mentor, who is Sven
> Herzberg btw, told me about jhbuild. A tool for easily building Gnome
> software without bricking your system. Thanks for that tip, Sven :)
> 
> Jhbuild was up and running quite soon, but after a few packages it
> failed because of a strange error message I don't remember anymore. I
> googled, pulled off my hair and didn't get it running. But the solution
> was rather simple: I just had to look through the jhbuild site on
> live.gnome.org, but for some reason I didn't. After Sven pointed out
> that RTFM sometimes really helps ;-) I nearly built Anjuta. But mozilla
> did not want to be build :-| After desperately applying all patches I
> found, I just abort building mozilla. Mozilla is needed for building
> Devhelp, but not for Anjuta, so I finally could build that anyway *yay*
> It cost me a whole day building Anjuta :-|