Comments on: Compiling GNOME 2.15.4 using jhbuild

By: therning.org/ magnus » Compiling GNOME 2.15.90

therning.org/ magnus » Compiling GNOME 2.15.90 — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 09:26:31 +0000

[...] I started trying to compile GNOME 2.15.4, but as you can read from the comments things didn’t quite work out. After a few emails on the gnome-love mailing list I switched to release 2.15.90. I quickly ran into problems with freetype2. It seems Sid’s version is too new. I added a new moduleset to the regular ones I got off the GNOME site: [...]

By: Magnus

Magnus — Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:15:56 +0000

Still haven’t gotten through the whole thing Damn! Small changes here and there in the moduleset is needed, and a rather big one (libxklavier 2.91 instead of 2.2).

Now I’m stuck on yelp (package 83 out of 133). It needs gecko, but doesn’t like what it finds… changing the configuration doesn’t seem to help either

By: Magnus

Magnus — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 19:38:26 +0000

Oh, yes. It did go pear-shaped So far I’ve found out that libgdbm-dev should be installed in oredr for the python bindings for gdbm to be compiled (I really don’t like that sort of auto-magic—configuration should be explicit so that I can control what gets built, inspecting the system and building depending on what’s available is simply WRONG).

I’ll be posting the changes I had to make to the moduleset later on…