Re: Build envrionment

[Paul Davis <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu>]

Jonathon Jongsma wrote:

> On 5/16/06, Paul Davis <pjdavis engineering uiowa edu> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
> Great!
>
> > 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?
>
>
> If you haven't already, I'd suggest you look at the section I wrote
> about this as an appendix to the gtkmm tutorial.  You can find it
> here: http://gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/tutorial/html/apg.html
> Basically, jhbuild solves most of these problems for you.  If you're
> not using jhbuild, I'd highly recommend it.  It allows you to more
> easily do a parallel install of development libraries and makes it
> easier to switch back and forth between your development environment
> and your distribution-packaged stable environment.
>
> Also, If you run into places in that brief tutorial that are confusing
> to you, please let me know so that I can improve it.  Note that the
> links in the online version are messed up, though.  I've fixed them in
> CVS, but they've not been updated online yet.  I think most of the
> 'jhbuild' links are supposed to point to
> http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/jhbuild.html.  You can get jhbuild from
> GNOME cvs or from its bzr repository (see
> http://blogs.gnome.org/view/jamesh/2006/05/01/0 for a little more info
> on the bzr repository)
>
> Jonner
Now that its finally building, I found a few things.

First off:
$ jhbuild sanitycheck
Could not find DocBook XSL Stylesheets in XML catalog

I figured this is harmless so I didn't pay it much attention.

More importantly though:

moduleset = 'gnome-2.14.modules'

You have this line in your docs about selecting which moduleset. I was 
getting an error that it couldn't find 
./path/to/blah/gnome-2.14.modules.modules

So I trimmed the .modules like this:

moduleset = 'gnome-2.16'

Notice I went up a version to get the latest greatest version.

So far, I'm on 5/21 thingies being built.  ahhhh, building software.

Otherwise, jhbuilder looks pretty slick.  I tried the bzr thing briefly, 
but it didn't work out so well. Then I realized the modules.moduels bit 
and all was good.

Paul