Another jhbuild libgsf glitch

[Prof J C Nash <nashjc ncf ca>]

Having returned from an academic visit to Perth WA, I'm getting back to 
my attempt to set up a build-bot to allow for building of versions of 
gnumeric that are up to date e.g., Windows cross-compile. I've still 
lots to learn.

My current problem concerns a matter that has appeared several times in 
the archives, namely libgsf. The jhbuild default for building libgsf 
creates 1.14.4, but the gnumeric.spec.in wants 1.14.6.

Can someone point me to documentation on how to put in the correct 
settings? The JHBuild manual gives the syntax, but not the location of 
the defaults.

There's also some glitchiness with scripts for gtk+: Here there appear 
to be no "make" rules for install all or test all, but ignoring the 
errors seems to be OK. However, I'm ultimately going to want to avoid 
stoppages and manual intervention on these scripts.

For information, my goal is to have a web page to select the settings 
for the build and send an email notification when the result is done. 
And I'm painfully aware that this will mean figuring out how to package 
up everything so it works for other folk. Collaboration welcome -- this 
sort of thing is not part of my computer background in numerical and web 
programming.

My gut feeling is that in order to get the system I want set up, I'm 
likely to have to document and clean up some of the scripts, which will 
be useful anyway.

JN