Re: Configuring jhbuild

[José Alburquerque <jaalburquerque cox net>]

José Alburquerque wrote:
> Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
>   
> > On 1/23/08, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 23:18 -0500, José Alburquerque wrote:
> > >     
> > >       
> > > > I've started using jhbuild to let it handle dependencies for me and
> > > > followed the basic instructions in the manual for configuring it but
> > > > each time I try to build something, it seems to be using tar balls
> > > > instead of using svn.  Am I doing something wrong?
> > > >       
> > > >         
> > > It uses tarballs for one or two things. Does it use svn when you do, for
> > > instance, "jhbuild buildone glibmm" ?
> > >     
> > >       
> > Just to add a little more information -- anything that's not
> > explicitly part of GNOME (i.e. an 'external dependency' such as
> > libxml2, cairo, etc) uses tarballs.
> >
> > In the past, these were also checked out from the version control
> > system, but that made jhbuild difficult to build since it was prone to
> > build failures from development versions of external libraries.  So a
> > change was made so that only things that are actually a GNOME project
> > should be pulled from svn.
> >
> >   
> >     
> Thanks.  Really appreciate this info.  It clears things up a lot.
>
>   
Well, I got pretty far (20/23 modules built successfully), but jhbuild 
gets stuck building gtkmm.  The error looks like I shouldn't be getting 
it, but this is what it says:

Making all in src
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/jhbuild-sources/gtkmm/atk/src'
/opt/jhbuild-root/lib64/glibmm-2.4/proc/gmmproc -I ../../tools/m4 --defs 
. action . ./../atkmm
No conversion from const gchar* to const Glib::ustring& defined (line: 
0, parameter name: desc)
m4 failed with exit code 1.  Aborting...
make[3]: *** [.stamps/stamp-action] Error 1

It looks like jhbuild is checking out the gtkmm-2.12 branch which is 
producing the error.  Is there a reason that jhbuild would want to check 
out gtkmm-2.12 instead of the trunk?  I'm using the latest jhbuild , 
using moduleset 'gnome-2.22' and have modules set to 'gstreamermm' 
(which depends on gtkmm).  I'm a little confused.

-Jose