[sugar] Trying to build sugar on ubuntu dapper

[Ivan Krstić]

Executive summary is "hang on, we'll sort this out in the next few
days." People not interested in details can skip the rest of the mail.

Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
> We had to give up on the Dapper build even with a lot of
> packaging help from a power Ubuntu user when we discovered the 2.5
> requirement (he suggested trying Feisty Fox, rather than Edgy, btw).

I spent about an hour on getting sugar built in a Dapper pbuilder today.
I successfully got through 25 of 27 modules built for build-base before
I hit a mysterious mozilla linking error with pango and cairo. The cause
appears to be a strange configuration or environment variable setup by
jhbuild, causing the build to attempt to link with the distro's
pango/cairo instead of those jhbuild built. Making the xulrunner module
manually succeeds when outside of jhbuild and its shell, so it might be
something as braindead as a library path ordering problem. The
succeeding and failing invocations, outside and inside of jhbuild
respectively, are at the end of the mail. I haven't compared them yet.

I didn't have more time to investigate, but will do so in the next few
days. If someone has more time to prod at it, I'd appreciate it; you can
get to where I left off by doing this in a fresh Dapper install:

# Enable universe, if you don't have it enabled already
root at aeryn# echo "deb http://mirror.cs.umn.edu/ubuntu dapper universe"
>> /etc/apt/sources.list

# Install dependencies
root at aeryn# apt-get update; apt-get -y install build-essential cvs
docbook-utils subversion libgtk2.0-dev libidl-dev    gnome-common
gtk-doc-tools libxt-dev automake1.7 automake1.8 automake1.9
python-gtk2-dev    python2.4-avahi git-core cogito python-dev
avahi-utils    libgconf2-dev xserver-xephyr libgnome2-dev
libmatchbox-dev python-cairo-dev    libtiff4-dev python-gnome2-dev
libxdamage-dev libxdamage1 libxcomposite-dev    libgnomeui-dev libtool
libfribidi-dev libgsf-1-dev libbz2-dev libwmf-dev
libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev
libgnomeprintui2.2-dev    libenchant-dev libnspr-dev darcs libxslt1.1
libxslt1-dev firefox firefox-dev    libasound2-dev libncurses5-dev
libsqlite3-dev libxml2-utils wget zip

# Grab jhbuild
root at aeryn# git clone git://dev.laptop.org/sugar-jhbuild

# ftp.gnu.org was down for me via HTTP, but worked over FTP
root at aeryn# sed -i 's/http:\/\/ftp.gnu.org/ftp:\/\/ftp.gnu.org/'
build-scripts/sugar-base.modules

# matchbox wants automake 1.9
root at aeryn# update-alternatives --set automake /usr/bin/automake-1.9

# skip this if you have a single-core/single-CPU machine, otherwise
# replace 3 with n+1, where 'n' is your core/CPU count
root at aeryn# export MAKE="make -j3"

# kick off the build
root at aeryn# cd sugar-jhbuild; ./sugar-jhbuild build-base

* * *

Succeeding xulrunner compile invocation:
    http://paste.debian.net/23202

Failing invocation:
    http://pastie.caboo.se/45214

-- 
Ivan Krstić <krstic at solarsail.hcs.harvard.edu> | GPG: 0x147C722D