Re: feedback on attempting to build network-manager from Subversion

[Mark Stosberg <mark summersault com>]

Mark Stosberg wrote:
> 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:
> 
> ##########
>  * 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.
> ##############
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> #############
> 
> If someone knows the extra steps missing, it would be nice to update the
> website to reflect them.

I got a little further on this by installing some additional packages
mentioned here:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=125150

However, this ultimately failed on Ubuntu Edgy, too.

The reason is that dbus-glib is not new enough on Edgy:

#####
Requested 'dbus-glib-1 >= 0.72' but version of dbus-glib is 0.71
#####

I tried manually installing the 0.73 version of that package from
Feisty, but it in turn had other dependencies:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libdbus-glib-1-2:
 libdbus-glib-1-2 depends on libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1); however:
  Version of libc6 on system is 2.4-1ubuntu12.3.
 libdbus-glib-1-2 depends on libdbus-1-3 (>= 0.94); however:
  Version of libdbus-1-3 on system is 0.93-0ubuntu3.1.
 libdbus-glib-1-2 depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.9); however:
  Version of libglib2.0-0 on system is 2.12.4-0ubuntu1.

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And at that point.... I gave up again, since I'm comfortable with
upgrading much of my system to Feisty at this point.

   Mark