Re: GTK miniiso - status and instructions for building

[Attilio Fiandrotti <fiandro@tiscalinet.it>]

Frans Pop wrote:
> On Sunday 02 October 2005 23:39, Attilio Fiandrotti wrote:
>
> > After a lot of efforts to remove unneded files from .TGZs now the
> > situation is:
> >
> > - d-i_gtk_frontend.tgz contains ONLY gtk.so compiled against my
> > hand-made libgtk+-directfb libs.
> > From now on gtk.so in d-i_gtk_frontend.tgz is chown'ed to 0:0 and
> > chmod'ed 644.
>
>
> Please also chown the directories (not that it really makes much 
> difference, it's just cleaner).

ok, i'll do it

> > - d-i_gtk_root.tgz contains ONLY my libc-2.3.5.so that is needed to
> > make gtk.so work (no more other files in /lib nor /etc directory)
>
>
> Hmmm. What about the other config files? Are they no longer needed or 
> should I include them in the rootskel-gtk udeb?
>
> I am talking about:
> etc/fonts/fonts.conf
> etc/fonts/local.conf
> etc/fonts/fonts.dtd
> etc/gtk-2.0/gtk.immodules
> etc/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
> etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

see my next mail on this particular subject

> > - d-i_gtk_fonts.tgz contains fonts: actually they don't work and we
> > must understand why (maybe fontconfig or pango related issues?)
>
>
> They worked for your homemade image before, right? Could you investigate a 
> bit (e.g. by comparing what is in ./build/tmp/gtk-miniiso/tree with what 
> was in your own CD)?

i tried to do this this night but i couldn't solve the problem

> > So i ask myself if it's better
> >
> > a)Try to make the libgtk+directfb 2.0.9.x.y udeb work to get rid of
> > unneded archives immediatly and later switch to GTKDFB 2.8
>
>
> I think we should spend a bit more time on this. Maybe we could get 
> Alastair to include a -dev package (deb, not udeb) against which we can 
> compile the frontend? Would that help?

that would be the best option for sure (fast, no need to start packaging 
GTKDFB2.8 right now) but i don't know if Alastair has time to do it and 
even if he does it other strange problems may rise up.. (maybe i should 
be more optimistic.. :)

> > b)Stay with .tgz archives (including my libgtk+directfb libs & related
> > files) until GTKDFB 2.8 is ready to be packaged
>
>
> If we can not get it working otherwise, yes.
>
> IMO, the more we can get working (including fonts) in an "official" way, 
> the easier it will be to make improvements, get help and check for 
> regressions later on.

maybe it would be better if every font is packaged "as it is now" inside 
an official udeb by his mantainer right now: we'll think about removing 
unneded glyphs later.. what do you think?

> > Anyway i'm very happy how things are going on :)
>
>
> Me too. At least now things are manageable and we all know where we stand.
>
> Cheers,
> FJP

let me be a little optimistic, i think we're doing "better than 
yesterday, worse than tomorrow"  ;)

ciao

attilio