Re: [gnome-love] How to build Gnome

[Joost van der Hoff <2noob2banoob gmail com>]

Thanks for the hint, even though my problem wasn't there. This reaction 
has still pushed me towards a retry, this time I have de-installed the 
version of JHbuild I installed with the package manager and built my own 
one from source. It certainly gets a lot farther now, but it still 
doesn't complete without errors.
When configuring GLib, it seems to generate a config.lt file with a 
syntax error. Googling the command on the unsyntactic line doesn't help, 
and my bash knowledge is not sufficient to find the error. The line I'm 
referring to is the following:

lt_join(,  ,lt_decl_varnames, )='(, ,lt_decl_varnames, )'

What I also learn from the command-line output is that one of the commas 
is unexpected, so probably this line shows empty spaces where should be 
some kind of NULL declarations. However I do not know for sure if this 
is the problem, and also I don't know how to type NULL in bash (and the 
possibilities I can think of (NULL, Null and null) don't seem to be 
anything according to Gedit's syntax higlighting). Does anyone know how 
to solve this issue?

On 12/01/10 20:37, Simon van der Linden wrote:
> On 12/01/10 20:31, Joost van der Hoff wrote:
> > I first tried Jhbuild (from the Ubuntu / Linux Mint repository, adding
> > some missing modules from the source version on GIT). However it did not
> > work because it did not recognize waf modules, even though I installed
> > waf and added the Jhbuild waf module to the jhbuild/modtypes directory.
>
> jhbuild should do the job. When you're stuck with an error, you might 
> want to have a look at the following page on GNOME's wiki: 
> http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildIssues