Re: What does your personal GTK+ development system consist of?

[Wade Renzi <wade_renzi yahoo com>]

--- Simos Xenitellis <simos lists googlemail com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Mikkel Kamstrup
> Erlandsen
> <mikkel kamstrup gmail com> wrote:
> > On 25/02/2008, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>
> wrote:
> >  >
> >  >  On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:27 +0100, Mikkel
> Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> >  >
> >  >  > > Use jhbuild and install everything in a
> different location, like with
> >  >  > >  --prefix=/opt/gnome.
> >  >  > >
> >  >  > >  Instructions are here:
> >  >  > >
> >  >  > >  http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild
> >  >  > > 
> http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/jhbuild
> >  >  >
> >  >  > Personally I would not recommend jhbuild.
> I've used it a good handful
> >  >  > times always without success.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  > your failures are of no consequence about the
> goodness of a tool -
> >  >  unless you obviously circumstantiate those
> failures with actual bug
> >  >  reports.
> >  >
> >  >  I commonly use jhbuild for projects in and
> outsite the platform, and
> >  >  I've been doing so in the past few years; so I
> fully support the
> >  >  original reply: jhbuild is the correct way to
> develop with checkouts of
> >  >  gtk+, and in general the whole GNOME platform,
> without screwing up your
> >  >  machine.
> >
> >  I did not intend to bash jhbuild. My problems has
> been with the builds
> >  of the Gnome stack.
> >
> >  Related to the question on just building gtk+,
> I'll still stick with a
> >  plain ol' --prefix=/opt.
> 
> Then, you would also have to setup the environment
> variables to use
> the newly compiled GTK+. jhbuild can do this for
> you, and you can use
> the rest of libraries that come from your current
> distribution. For
> example, for simple gtk+ hacking, the workflow is
> 
> 1. jhbuild build gtk+        (just 16 packages)
> 2. jhbuild shell           to get a shell with env
> variables properly set.
> 3. now run your test program that is based on gtk+;
> will use fresh
> gtk+ library, the rest of the libraries come from
> the system
> 4. hack gtk+, then type "make install" to refresh
> your build with the
> new changes (takes <15s on modern systems)
> 5. go to step 3.

Am I right in thinking their should be a jhbuildrc
file I can get hold of which I can use to get and
build gtk+, atk, cairo, pango, zlib, libpng and glib
from source? If so where would I find it?

Thanks.



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