Re: Building gnome-pilot

[Colin Williams <lackita gmail com>]

I thought it would be better to build from source, rather than try to
fix bugs which had already been fixed by someone else.  My main interest
right now is to hammer out some bugs I've been experiencing trying to
sync my Z22.  After those are eliminated, I was going to work on the
calendar conduit so that I could sync with my google calendar.

Colin

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 12:49 +0000, Matt Davey wrote: 
> Hi Colin,
> 
> It would be great if you had some time to contribute.  As you can tell,
> gnome-pilot is a bit time-starved at the moment.  Any time I've had to
> spend over the last while (year+) has been spent trying to keep it up to
> date with the gnome3/gtk3 changes (which have been considerable).
> 
> I'm glad you figured things out despite the poor instructions.  It might
> have been easier for you to start with the most recent .tar.gz release,
> as this includes a 'configure' script, rather than requiring the
> 'autogen.sh' step which is required when building from the checked out
> repository.
> 
> Hope this helps.  What features are you interested in working on?
> 
> Matt Davey        Many hands make light work - but
> mcdavey mrao cam ac uk 	Too many cooks spoil the broth.
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 20:10 -0500, Colin Williams wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I thought I'd try to do a bit of development work on gnome-pilot, as I
> > have a palm Z22 and the current release has some features missing that
> > I really needed.  Anyway, I'm trying to get the development version
> > and build it, and I've run into several problems.  Some of these may
> > be my inexperience with the tools, but I was hoping somebody could
> > give me a hand.
> > 
> > First, I tried to clone the git repository, using the command on the
> > site, and I got the following:
> > 
> > $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/gnome-pilot/
> > Initialized empty Git repository in /home/lackita/Documents/gnome-pilot/.git/
> > git.gnome.org[0: 209.132.180.173]: errno=Connection timed out
> > fatal: unable to connect a socket (Connection timed out)
> > 
> > Not a big deal, I just switched the protocol to http and it worked
> > fine.  My first question: Was there some configuration problem I
> > needed to fix with git, is the command on the site incorrect, or is
> > there a configuration error with the git repository?
> > 
> > Second, I tried to build the code.  To my surprise, I could not find a
> > configure file.  I also could not find an INSTALL file, which was my
> > fallback.  The README appears to be woefully out of date (it still had
> > me fetching from the cvs repository at cvs.gnu-designs.com) but ended
> > up suggesting autogen.sh which is what I needed to get moving.  I
> > think this was my own inexperience for the most part, but the README
> > could be organized a little better.
> > 
> > Colin
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> > 
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