Re: [gnome-love] feedback on getting started.

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> Yes, logical.  Too bad developer.gnome.org does more
> harm than good
> (see
http://usefulinc.com/edd/blog/contents/2003/11/25-gnomedevel/read,
> for example).  *sigh*
*snip* 
> Perhaps a rewrite of developer.gnome.org.  :-) 

Does the gnome website need help with this sort of
thing?

> So, it sounds like you didn't install any of the
> development libraries
> on your distro (in particular, libglade, known as
> 'libglade2-dev' on
> my system).  I guess I could try to add instructions
> for this
> somewhere, but it's different for every distro and
> so I just assumed
> people would install the development libraries
> themselves.  Thanks for
> pointing out that I need to at least mention this.

Yup, I don't have those libraries.
I figured those pages were out of my depth but I
thought I would give it a try anyway :)

> Oops, not only did the wiki page you refer to forget
> to mention that,
> but I also forgot it in my guide...

Thanks for updating it :)
However, $WHOAMI doesn't seem to do anything on my
distro. I assume it's an environment variable? I think
even newbies will understand something like
'username'.

> > I created the folder & it worked properly.
(Though
> it
> > does a HUGE amount of stuff... the guide could
> perhaps
> > warn that this is going to happen.)
>
> Well the point of the bootstrap is to install about
> 10 different
> programs to make sure you have all the appropriate
> build tools and new
> enough versions of the programs, so yes.

I've edit the wiki page to mention this. It's best to
warn users that a command will produce a lot of output
& take a long time. It prevents 'oh no I've broken
everything!' panic. :)


> <snip>
> > I fixed this problem and tried again:
> >
> > joachim@ubuntu:~$ jhbuild sanitycheck
> > automake-1.7 not found
> > automake-1.8 not found
> > automake-1.9 not found
>
> Did you repeat the 'jhbuild bootstrap' after fixing
> up your install
> prefix so that you could write to it?

I hadn't, but I have now. This is the end of my output
(there's a lot of it but I think it's all relevant):

test -z "/home/joachim/gnome/lib" || mkdir -p --
"/home/joachim/gnome/lib"
 /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install
/home/joachim/bin/install-check  'libgettextsrc.la'
'/home/joachim/gnome/lib/libgettextsrc.la'
libtool: install: error: cannot install
`libgettextsrc.la' to a directory not ending in
/opt/gnome2/lib
 /bin/sh ../libtool --mode=install
/home/joachim/bin/install-check  'libgettextpo.la'
'/home/joachim/gnome/lib/libgettextpo.la'
libtool: install: error: cannot install
`libgettextpo.la' to a directory not ending in
/opt/gnome2/lib
make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory
`/home/joachim/source/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/src'
make[3]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/home/joachim/source/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/src'
make[2]: *** [install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/home/joachim/source/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools/src'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/joachim/source/gettext-0.14.5/gettext-tools'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
*** error during stage install of gettext: could not
make module *** [1/10]


  [1] rerun stage install
  [2] ignore error and continue to done
  [3] give up on module
  [4] start shell
choice:

I'm not sure what to do at this point.

regards

Joachim





                
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