Re: Modulesets Reorganization

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:38 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:19 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 02.06.2010, 13:11 +0200 schrieb Luca Ferretti:
> > > if you want to develop for GNOME, then install a jhbuild
> > > sandbox (stable or development) and make your application build and work
> > > inside it.
> > 
> > Depends on how you define "build and work", but pretty exactly half of
> > the current module maintainers already fail with fulfilling such a
> > requirement. See stats at http://build.gnome.org/ . ;-)
> > 
> just had a quick look at gnome-settings-daemon, and it's failing because
> of missing X* data types, so I guess it's missing some dependencies?

Those should be checked for in the configure script.

> Maybe that's the same for lots of other modules?
> 
> In fact, when running jhbuild from scratch, I always end up having to
> install several xorg-*-dev packages.

That's when it should fail in configure, not building.