Re: building gnome from scratch

["Tom Lamm" <tlamm osageinc com>]

I use debian, not redhat, but my experience is that you will be far happier if you use whatever standard RPM's are available.

I built Gnome from scratch once. It worked fine, the process was only moderately painful. Of course, installing from standard packages would have been a far better use of my time. I thought I would learn more about Gnome by doing so, but learned more about watching a computer compile instead. 

The choice of where to install some resources and libraries is sometimes a little arbitrary. For those cases, if you do not choose the same location as the package maintainer, it will probably work, but will confuse the packages when you go to perform an upgrade. Eventually, I cleaned Gnome off the computer and re-installed from the packages.

Spend your time learning Gnome, not build ;o)

TOm Lamm

---------- Original Message -------------
Subject: building gnome from scratch
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:28:56 -0700 (MST)
From: Don Raikes <draikes theriver com>
To: gnome-list gnome org


Hello,

I have a redhat 9.0 system, and I am interested in building gnome 2.4 from 
scratch.

I have tried garnome and jhbuild.
Garnome has problems retrieving some packages so that when I am done, I am 
missing things like gnome-session.

jhbuild has problems with similar packages.

Is there a trick to building gnome, or is there a better method for doing 
it?

Thanks,
Don Raikes, Gnome newbie

_______________________________________________
gnome-list mailing list
gnome-list gnome org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list