Re: [gnome-love] building gnome with jhbuild

[Jan Bouma <janb linux chello nl>]

Elijah Newren wrote:
> On 10/21/06, Jan Bouma <janb linux chello nl> wrote:
> > When i build gnome with jhbuild i get
> > configure: error: Could not find Python module gdbm
> > on the module avahi
> >
> > Python is installed and when i want to install 
> > python-gdbm_2.3.5-2_all.deb
> > i get : Error A later version is already installed.
> > So it is there .
> >
> > Can any one help me.
> > I can't figure this one out.
>
> jhbuild builds its own version of python in your specified prefix
> (/opt/gnome2) by default.  It's part of the bootstrap stage.  It's
> most likely looking there and unable to find the other package you
> have installed under /usr.  I ran into a similar problem some time
> ago.  I believe the following should fix this:
>
> Install the gdbm-devel package for your distribution (it may have a
> different name than 'gdbm-devel'; that's the fedora package name).
>
> Make jhbuild think it hasn't built python yet.  Do this by editing
> $prefix/share/jhbuild/packagedb.xml and remove the line containing
> package="python".  Note that you'll have to manually replace $prefix
> with your prefix (/opt/gnome2 by default, check your ~/.jhbuildrc to
> see if you changed it)
>
> Rebuild python.  Do this via the command
>  jhbuild -m bootstrap buildone python
> ('jhbuild bootstrap' probably works too, fwiw, but I prefer the longer
> more specific form).
>
> Cheers,
> Elijah
many thanks it worked.

But 2 modules later a new problem appeared.
My .jhbuildrc looks like:

moduleset = 'gnome-2.16'
modules = [ 'meta-gnome-desktop' ]
checkoutroot = os.path.expanduser('/data/gnome2')
prefix = '/data/opt/gnome2'
os.environ['INSTALL'] = os.path.expanduser('~/bin/install-check')

and the module PolicyKit gives a compile error pam_modules.h not found.
I installed libpam_dev and i get a little further.
Now i'm geting the error : undefined reference to 'pam_strerror' in 
polkit-session.c
it is defined in _pam_types.h as an external. SO it looks like i am 
missing a library but which one._pam_types is in the directory 
/usr/inlcude/security.


do i someting wrong ?

Jan