Building GNOME2 problems

[Pawel Salek <pawsa theochem kth se>]

Hi,

I have tried building GNOME2 on my box using vicious-scripts. I have 
encountered two problems:

1. Bootstrap process hangs becuase download of pkgconfig fails 
(www.freedesktop.org is not available). I found an pkgconfig-0.8.0 and 
hope it is a good replacement.

2. Building panel fails:
checking for libglade-convert... no
configure: error: libglade-convert (from libglade 2.0) is needed to 
build gnome-core.

ERROR:gnome-panel: Cant autogen

What is the problem? Is this because  
/gnome/head/cvs/libglade/libglade-convert is not installed properly? I 
guess it is not installed properly because apparently python-2.0 is 
required, is that correct? Is there any way to remove this dependency?

Has anyone succeeded to install gnome-2.0 without python-2.0 installed?

-pawel