Re: What does your personal GTK+ development system consist of?

["Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen" <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>]

On 25/02/2008, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
>
>  On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 10:27 +0100, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
>
>  > > Use jhbuild and install everything in a different location, like with
>  > >  --prefix=/opt/gnome.
>  > >
>  > >  Instructions are here:
>  > >
>  > >  http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild
>  > >  http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/jhbuild
>  >
>  > Personally I would not recommend jhbuild. I've used it a good handful
>  > times always without success.
>
>
> your failures are of no consequence about the goodness of a tool -
>  unless you obviously circumstantiate those failures with actual bug
>  reports.
>
>  I commonly use jhbuild for projects in and outsite the platform, and
>  I've been doing so in the past few years; so I fully support the
>  original reply: jhbuild is the correct way to develop with checkouts of
>  gtk+, and in general the whole GNOME platform, without screwing up your
>  machine.

I did not intend to bash jhbuild. My problems has been with the builds
of the Gnome stack.

Related to the question on just building gtk+, I'll still stick with a
plain ol' --prefix=/opt.

Cheers,
Mikkel