Re: make distcheck in tinderbox [was Re: make check failures- gnome-vfs, e-d-s, at-spi]

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Colin Walters wrote:

> What's so difficult about jhbuild?  Couldn't we make just make it easier
> (such as having jhbuild autodetect stuff in /usr and adjust
> PKG_CONFIG_PATH)?
>  
jhbuild is pretty damned difficult.  Whenever I want to get a jhbuild 
going on a machine it invariably requires about a day of troubleshooting 
various problems, expecially on amd64.  It requires installing like 5 
different versions of automake.  There's a point where you have to go 
into the installed version of a package and symlink a directory down to 
itself because of a problem with make install, then run the installer 
again.  There's the perennial *win32*.h thing with libxslt where you get 
merge conflicts on every other update.  And of course, often it doesn't 
build at all.

-Rob