Re: jhbuild gnome 3.8 in ubuntu 12.04

On Sun, 2013-06-23 at 12:14 -0004, Adam Dingle wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 4:28 AM, lcl <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I want to build gnome 3.8 in ubuntu 12.04.
> [...]
> As you've probably figured out, gnome-control-center looks for 
> smbclient.pc (this is a recent dependency change, by the way).  But if 
> smbclient.pc is not found, that shouldn't be a fatal error: 
> gnome-control-center should build anyway, just without the Printers 
> control panel.  So if you don't care about printing, this might not 
> matter.

It might be.  In the modulesets, smbclient is a required package for
gnome-control-center, but strictly speaking, you can build
gnome-control-center without smbclient.

https://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/tree/modulesets/gnome-suites-core-3.8.modules#n114
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-control-center/tree/configure.ac?h=gnome-3-8#n223

One solution in our end is to move smbclient from required to suggested.

> What error message are you seeing, exactly?  Does it stop the build?
> 
> Again, the easiest route might be to upgrade to Ubuntu 13.10.  Then you 
> could simply install the binary package libsmbclient-dev, which 
> includes smbclient.pc.  (In older versions of Ubuntu libsmbclient-dev 
> does not have that file; see 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/samba/+bug/1129110 .)

This is not the first package in ubuntu that misses to include the
corresponding .pc file.  libicu-dev is another one.

Unfortunately, Ubuntu is not releasing the fixes back to 12.04 in spite
that is a LTS release and in spite adding a pkg-config in a same version
is harmless.

FWIW, I use 12.04 and it turned out I have to fix these issues by
rebuilding the packages by myself.

-- 
Germán Poo-Caamaño
http://calcifer.org/

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