Build envrionment

[Paul Davis <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>]

Howdy,

I was looking through different bugs listed in Bugzilla and I think I 
found another one I might be able to fix with the parent/child menu 
destruction.

Anyway, this one is a bit more complicated and I want to be able to 
compile my changes before I start wasting anyone's time.

So, the question is, what kind of build environment should I be using?

Is there an easy way to get everything out of CVS?

I like having a copy of the gtk+ source around too for reference, but 
when compiling gtkmm, should I be compiling it against libraries I built 
for gtk?

And how do you guys keep this stuff separate from the packaged libraries 
(meaning libraries managed by my distro's package manager)?  Or do you even?

Anyhow, hopefully I'm not completely off my rocker.

Paul Davis