Re: [gnome-love] Compiling 2.15.4

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 7/23/06, Magnus Therning <magnus therning org> wrote:
> GTK+
> ----
> gtk+ configure complained about no libtiff. I modified its autogenargs
> to include --without-libtiff. I didn't even try installing the correct
> dev package on my system. (Should libtiff be added to the
> pre-requisites?)

Yes, libtiff-devel has been a dependency of gtk+ for years.

> libdaemon
> ---------
> libdaemon configure complained about missing lynx. I installed it.
> (Should lynx be added to the pre-requisites?)

Yes, this was a recent dependency addition of libdaemon.

> avahi
> -----
> avahi configure first complained about gdbm. Installing libgdbm-dev
> solved that.
>
> Then it complained about D-Bus bindings for Python. Installing the
> distro packages for this did no good, I assume that is since jhbuild
> pulls in its own python, right? Adding --disable-python-dbus allowed me
> to move on.

Would have been better to build the dbus bindings for python and make
sure they were installed correctly, but if this works for you...  :)

> I must admit I'm slightly disappointed in 2.15.4. I know it's a
> development release but I was hoping it'd be at least buildable. Any
> guidance on how to move on will be most appreciated.

As I said in the other email, I think that moduleset is broken.
2.15.90 ought to be much nicer to you.  Besides, the 2.15.90 moduleset
is still being fixed.  In fact, I need to go bug some totem people
about a release for the moduleset...

> Elijah, any pointers on bug #344521? (Sorry, couldn't help myself :-)

I suck and have had about 0 time to review metacity patches; I've had
to apologize to several people about this over the last month and a
half.  You can try pinging Havoc, as it's possible that he might be
able to get to it before me.  I will get to it sooner or later if he
doesn't, though.  Sorry about the ridiculously long wait.