[sugar] Trying to build sugar on ubuntu dapper

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:

>> 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.

+1 to this.  Removing pango-devel from FC6 allowed Mozilla to build 
successfully, which points to sugar-jhbuild inappropriately using the 
system pango instead of the local pango during build.

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