Re: Common knowledge in jhbuild for funny modules

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 19:35 -0500, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> Then, we have avahi, which lists dbus-python as a dependency.  In turn,
> jhbuild requires pyrex in order to build dbus-python.  However, pyrex
> is *not* installed as part of jhbuild's bootstrap installation of
> Python.  So, dbus-python is unbuildable.

I just filed this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350510
Jhbuild should be able to tell me when I need to re-run "jhbuild
bootstrap".  Pyrex was added recently to the bootstrap meta-module.

Also, we have hal, which never builds because it wants libvolume_id.  I
know this is mentioned here:
http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildIssues/hal

And it suggests that you apply a patch to hal to make it do nothing when
it has to do calls to libvolume_id.  Why is the patch not on CVS?  Note
that a jhbuilt GNOME, built expressly for testing purposes, will *NOT*
use the new HAL daemon; it will use the existing one from the system!
So it doesn't make sense for *that* build of HAL to expect a super-new
libvolume_id.

  Federico