On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 14:31 +0100, guenther wrote: > > > Yeah, jhbuild is /supposed/ to be easy. Running CVS versions can be hard > > > though, even with a tool that supposedly makes the build easy. ;) > > > > > > I'd recommend GARNOME [1], if you want to test particular apps/versions > > > or the entire GNOME Desktop. It does not use CVS versions but released > > > tarballs (either stable or unstable), so building it does not depend on > > > the current state of CVS... > > > GARNOME is designed to not interfere with your existing installs, so > > > it's safe for testing. Regardless if you build Evo by jhbuild or > > > GARNOME, the deps sure are the same and automatically build by GARNOME. > > > > I downloaded Garnome to take a look, but haven't tried it yet since I > > figured out that my problem with 2.5.1 was a missing hal-devel RPM. > > GARNOME ships with almost all necessary bootstrap. In particular, the > proper hal version is built by GARNOME automagically. > > > > I'll > > keep it in mind for future reference, though it's not clear from the > > docs whether you can just compile the parts you want or have to install > > (or at least compile) an entire Gnome desktop, which I *don't* want. > > You can build Evo only -- kind of. All deps to keep it sane will be > built, you do not need to build the entire Desktop. > > $ make -C desktop/evolution paranoid-install
OK, I'll try that just for the fun of it :-) poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
