[sugar] Trying to build sugar on ubuntu dapper

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Ivan Krsti? wrote:

> 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'm getting this with sugar-jhbuild for Fedora Core 6 as well, as of last 
night.  Reminiscent of a similar problem several weeks ago... reversion?

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