Re: Intricate changes to Quartz/OSX backend

[John Ralls <jralls ceridwen us>]

On Oct 26, 2009, at 7:44 AM, Paul Davis wrote:

> I'm starting a build with moduleset-unstable. I've run into a fairly
> problem  at the meta-gtk-osx-bootstrap stage:
>
> *** Checking out docbook-setup *** [2/13]
> jhbuild build: failed to unpack /Users/paul/gtk/source/pkgs/DB_1
>
> there is nothing wrong with the downloaded tarball - i can unpack it
> manually into ~/gtk/source without any issues. but jhbuild refuses to
> believe it can do this. anybody got any clues? or hints on how to get
> more info?

Oh, and unstable won't build without intervention on Tiger, because  
the latest Pango uses CoreText instead of ATSUI; CoreText wasn't  
supported before Leopard.

When it bombs, select item 4 to start a shell, and say
git checkout 1.24.3
exit
then select "clean" (which I think will be item 8)

Regards,
John Ralls