[sugar] Re: Build issues

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

7150 wrote:
> Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> the reason builds has been failing lately is that goocanvas now requires
>> gtk 2.10.
>>
>> I just checked in a patch in sugar-jhbuild to build gtk+ and some deps
>> too. It increase the build time quite a bit but I don't think there is a
>> way around that.
>>
>> Let me know if this works fine for you or there are still issues.
>>
>> Marco
>>
>>
>>
>>     
> Ok, Marco. I'm getting my build "script" from:
>
> http://wiki.laptop.org/index.php/Setting_Up_a_Sugar_Development_Environment_on_Ubuntu_Linux#Using_Sugar-jhbuild
>
> It is as follows:
>
> sudo apt-get install build-essential cvs subversion libgtk2.0-dev
> libidl-dev \
>   gnome-common gtk-doc-tools libxt-dev automake1.7 automake1.9
> python-gtk2-dev \
>   python2.4-avahi git-core cogito python-dev avahi-utils \
>   libgconf2-dev xnest libgnome2-dev mozilla-dev libmatchbox-dev
> python-cairo-dev \
>   libtiff4-dev
>
> I see that it contains libgtk2.0, so I guess that's the problem. I don't
> see any gtk 2.1 stuff in the Ubuntu repositories. I think I'm toast.
>
>   

A lot of this packages are not needed actually. Gtk is built by 
sugar-jhbuild now.

> Can't run FC4/5 on my IBM 600X spare machine (toooo many serious problems).
>
>   

The main reason to use jhbuild is that it can work on all recent 
distributions.

> I won't bother you anymore. I'm too much of a newbie to be taking up
> your time.
>
> I'll just wait until I see evidence of it working for others.
>
> Thanks. I think this is a vital project.
>   

Feedback is useful... See the other mail for what I think is the issue.

Marco