feedback on attempting to build network-manager from Subversion

[Mark Stosberg <mark summersault com>]

I tried to build NetworkManager from SVN tonight, to see if the latest
version fixed this bug already:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=418065

>From this ChangeLog entry, it appears that might be fixed:

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 * src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c: Fix wireless device scanning
scheduler.	The new algorithm is to start from SCAN_INTERVAL_MIN
(currently defined as 0)	and add a SCAN_INTERVAL_STEP (currently 20
seconds) with each successful scan	until SCAN_INTERVAL_MAX (currently
120 seconds) is reached. Do not scan while	the device is down,
activating, or activated (in case of A/B/G cards).Remove some old dead
ifdef'ed out code that used to configure wireless devices, it's all done
through supplicant now.
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However, I ran into some barriers trying to install the latest version.
First, the website refers to CVS, when the latest code is in Subversion now:

http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/developers/

For me, the experience on Ubuntu when more like this instead:

sudo apt-get install subversion gnome-common checkinstall
svn checkout http://svn.gnome.org/svn/NetworkManager/trunk NetworkManager

( Checkinstall would have been useful for creating a package of the CVS
version, but I didn't actually get that far ).

It seems "gnome-common" isn't all that a vanilla system needs to compile
this. I also get these failures from the autogen script on Ubuntu Edgy:

checking for glib-gettext >= 2.2.0...
  testing glib-gettextize...
not found.
***Error***: You must have glib-gettext >= 2.2.0 installed
  to build NetworkManager.  Download the appropriate package for
  from your distribution or get the source tarball at
    ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.2/glib-2.2.0.tar.gz

Checking for forbidden M4 macros...
***Error***: some autoconf macros required to build NetworkManager
  were not found in your aclocal path, or some forbidden
  macros were found.  Perhaps you need to adjust your
  ACLOCAL_FLAGS?


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If someone knows the extra steps missing, it would be nice to update the
website to reflect them.

( And of course, I'm still curious to find a solution the frequent
disconnect/reconnect bug!)

    Mark