Re: GARNOME 2.11.91

[Stef van der Made <svdmade planet nl>]

Hi All,

I've finished building the most important components of this release and 
it looks wonderfull :-) I still need to resolve an issue with dbus to 
get all my ducks in a row for desktop to be fully compiled.

Thanks for all your hard work,

Stef

Paul Drain wrote:

> GARNOME 2.11.91
> ===============
> (the 'number four, step forward and say the line' release.)
>
> Gradually, the 2.11.x series is gaining sanity.
>
> This release incorporates all of the GNOME 2.11.91 (aka. Beta 2)
> Desktop and Developer Platform, including glib/gtk+ 2.7.x and cairo.
>
> This release has also had a little more polish to ensure that the build
> system builds and links against things in your GARNOME directory, and not
> your system one, hopefully cutting down on errors relating to 
> pesky '.la files' that some distributions insist on shipping in 
> their -devel packages.
>
> That said -- and while this release has actually been more stringently 
> tested than it's snapshot counterpart -- it's still likely to do things
> that are weird and unexpected ... maybe ... that's just the nature of
> the beast.
>
> In particular, GCC 4.x users may want to take a look at:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309661 and then uncomment the
> CFLAGS workaround in your gar.conf.mk file before beginning your build.
>
> In addition, people who have been bitten by the `cairo_surface_write_to_png'
> bug-of-doom (http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2005-July/msg00142.html)
> should be all sorted now, if you still find this bug -- please let the mailing list
> know.
>
> Aside from that, READ the README's, join the mailing list, use the IRC 
> channel -- and most of all, report bugs -- all of which will help make
> GNOME 2.12 a happier and safer place for everyone.
>
> Tarball: ftp://cipherfunk.org/pub/tarballs/garnome/v2.11/garnome-2.11.91.tar.bz2
> MD5: c3a80635ed877afa4d64ea4f02a32bae
>
> Enjoy,
>
> Paul
>
>