Re: Learning to love Jhbuild

Johannes Schmid <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:43:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.devtools
Message-ID <1218562995.7960.20.camel@idefix>
Hi!

It's the wrong place to ask here. Better ask on
[email protected]

Regards,
Johannes


Am Samstag, den 09.08.2008, 02:49 +0300 schrieb Dmitrijs Ledkovs:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I'm new here and trying to figure out my way around developing for
> gnome. I hope I'm posting to correct mailing list.
> 
> I've started to use Jhbuild and I hit some _minor_ annoyances. I did
> manage to build a few modules but I hit some issues running them,
> e.g. epiphany and evolution.
> 
> Mainly when running those apps I was getting many warnings that they
> can't access gconf, nor dbus and etc. Well obvious since I wasn't
> running full blown compiled development desktop.
> 
> I don't think I have enough space (nor time) to build full
> gnome. Hence my question. Is there a meta package defined in
> modulesets which will give me a basic gdm login into compiled
> development gnome? I can think that I will need nautilus & metacity,
> but I'm not quite sure on the rest.
> 
> Also does anyone maintains modulesets to buid from git instead of
> svn. I saw some posts on jhbuild being able to build from git. Am I
> save enough to change gnome repo from svn to git, with
> git-mirror.gnome.org url? Cause then It would be absolutely awesome for
> my workflow.
> 
> BTW how does jhbuild manages with branches? or does it simply use the
> current branch?
> 
> With best regards
> 
> 
> 
> Dmitrijs Ledkovs
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