Re: setting up a gtk dev environment

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:40 -0400, Patrick Hallinan wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:24 -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 14:08 -0400, Patrick Hallinan wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I wish to help with the development of gtk+ but I'm not having any fun
> > > trying to setup a build environment for gtk+.  I've looked for help at
> > > www.gtk.org/development.html and developer.gnome.org. I have tried using
> > > jhbuild from  http://svn.gnome.org/svn/jhbuild/trunk. No dice. 
> > 
> > "no dice" doesn't really add up to a bug report on jhbuild. hundreds,
> > perhaps thousands, of people use that as a way to build and maintain the
> > GTK stack from svn. what was your problem with it?
> > 
> 
> I guess you are saying that I should be using jhbuild to get a gtk+
> build environment?
> 
> I'm using the subversion trunk for jhbuild which I didn't assume was
> stable.  I get the output below when I try "jhbuild bootstrap"  

In general, I'd strongly recommend against jhbuild bootstrap. It:

 - May install older versions of components than your system versions,
   causing weird problems
 - Increases the total amount of things you are building, giving
   more possibilities for failure.

It is definitely a bad idea for Fedora 9, which has nice shiny new
versions of everything. So blow away your install directory and
start over without the bootstrap, and you'll be happier.

 http://live.gnome.org/JhbuildDependencies/FedoraCore

Has information about what packages you need to install for Fedora.

- Owen