On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 01:33 +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > I still remember the days when BLFS was close to the bleeding edge. > So, FWIW, here is a list of the gnome and related packages I've just > built to try out gnome-2.32 (without gtk+-3, since the only versions > available are for development). It wasn't a particularly useful > build, I'll perhaps try out development versions with gtk+-3 when
Gnome 2.32 does not require gtk3 in any way. There are a handful of packages that can be built against either 2 or 3, but that's just a consequence of being in transition. Some may need --with-gtk=2.0 if 3.0 is present. If you're looking to try development versions (i.e Gnome 3), good luck - last time I tried (November or so), it was almost impossible, everything changing such that getting dependencies right was a headache. I think that's stabilised somewhat now that gtk3 is close to final and things have mostly ported to it, but don't expect it to be easy. > libproxy-0.3.0 - not part of gnome. I started by trying 0.4.6, > but in best google fashion that needs ./autogen.sh instead of > configure. Nastily, that then tries to invoke cmake, so I fed it to > /dev/null and reverted to an older version. There is apparently a > 0.3.1 version, but I see no reason to try that in my own usage. Oh, yeah - that package has been a major headache, 0.4.6 being the first version I could build without backporting half a dozen bug fixes from their repository. Seriously, that's a package with a dangerously casual attitude to release quality... Not sure what you mean about autogen though - 0.4.6 is a cmake-based build, and any traces of autogen are probably left over from when they changed it. The following steps work fine for me: cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr . make make install > webkit-1.2.6 > > I didn't try the 1.3 series this time because it is still labelled > as a -development version (it will be needed for newer epiphany / > yelp), By 'newer versions', you mean the Gnome 3.x versions? Yeah, they need 1.3.x because that's the version supporting gtk3. > gconf-editor-2.32.0 > I'm starting to think that installing this is a waste of my time, > it only lets me change what I've installed so e.g. there seems to be > nothing I can edit to say to epiphany "use evince for pdf files > instead of telling me there is no application for them, you stupid > browser" ;-) In my experience, not finding a suitable application for a document has nothing to do with GConf - it's usually a sign you need to run update-desktop-database (from desktop-file-utils) which indexes the .desktop files installed by apps like evince. Simon.
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