Re: Release Plans (1999-05-10)
Hi, everyone.
I've successfully built most of Gnome on a stock Slink system.
Three cheers for the Gnome project and the packaging team!
On 12 May 1999 15:41:04 +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote :
> BTW: compiling gnome is a pain. We _need_ source dependencies
Hear, hear.
Just for flavour, the gotchas I've found include:
- Need to upgrade autoconf, automake, libtool and debhelper
- Make sure libjpeg62-dev and not libjpeg6a-dev is installed, or
Imlib builds linked against both, and weird stuff happens.
- There are a number of minor build breaks or hassles which I
don't have time to reproduce and document. An autobuilder would
have a lot of trouble just right now. Eg. bug #37226 and more.
I think Debian should have high quality Slink gnome binaries, because
not everyone can afford to run unstable and building from source is
quite a lot of work. Also, Redhat have this shipped :-)
Good luck,
Gordon
<Musing>
Building Gnome is pretty mind-blowing: tens of megabytes of code
and data wrapped in two-million, five hundred thousand tonnes of
spinning build-script...
PS: Can debian-gtk-gnome be web-archived?
--
We knew we were in trouble when we needed the
seventh power-board for the coffee machines.
// Gordon Deane // Engineering/Maths // Aust. Nat. Uni //
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