Hi all, Newbie to the list and newbie to gnome-shell as well. So my queries/questions may be off or seem beginner so be it.
I just browsed the page http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell . The documentation feels incomplete. I could fill in the blanks if need be but would need the expertise of the people on the list. Please direct your attention to http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell#Building a. What is JHBuild? There are going to be newbies (like me) who would be confused where to get this JHBuild. Searched in the package manager and found it is there in Debian. $ aptitude show jhbuild Description: flexible build script for package collections Jhbuild is a program that can be used to pull a number of modules from CVS, Subversion, Bazaar and other types of repositories or from tarballs and build them in the correct order. Unlike some build scripts, jhbuild lets you specify what modules you want built and it will then go and build those modules plus dependencies. I searched and linked the jhbuild page to the Gnome Shell/Building page . From the instructions given on the jhbuild it seems that one has/should download the jhbuild via git, is this true also for gnome-shell ? This is the jhbuild in my system, for the record I'm on Debian Squeeze. $ aptitude show jhbuild Package: jhbuild New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 2.29.2-2 Priority: optional Section: devel Maintainer: Loic Minier <l...@dooz.org> Uncompressed Size: 2,146 k Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.5), python (>= 2.4), python-support (>= 0.90.0) Recommends: bzr, cvs, git-core, mercurial, subversion, patch, wget | curl, autoconf, automake, gettext, pkg-config Suggests: tla, darcs, python-pygraphviz Description: flexible build script for package collections Jhbuild is a program that can be used to pull a number of modules from CVS, Subversion, Bazaar and other types of repositories or from tarballs and build them in the correct order. Unlike some build scripts, jhbuild lets you specify what modules you want built and it will then go and build those modules plus dependencies. Although jhbuild was originally developed to build GNOME, it is now able to build a number of the modules in freedesktop.org's CVS. Extending it to handle new modules is usually trivial assuming the build infrastructure matches the other modules it handles b. The actual building itself needs to be broken down. Now I do not know whether I need to download the jhbuild first from git (depending on the answer given above) and then the script (curl -O http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/plain/tools/build/gnome-shell-build-setup.sh /bin/bash gnome-shell-build-setup.sh) Some clarity here would be good . It would have been nice to have some sort of fixed requirements given before one attempts something. An example of what I mean is here :- http://adonthell.berlios.de/doc/index.php/Development:Compiling I am talking about the pre-requisites. c. A query, I saw the page about removing .la files http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/RemovingLaFiles What happens if one just deletes/removes the .la files and does the other part as well $ sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90removela <<< 'DPkg { Post-Invoke { "rm /usr/lib*/*.la 2> /dev/null || true"; }; };' but does not build/install gnome-shell then what would happen. I would have liked some background info. on what were these .la files as there were quite a few on my system (around 50-70 or so) which I have removed both from /usr/lib and /usr/lib64. Looking forward for the queries above before I push further. Btw I'm subscribed to the list but mail delivery is turned off so please CC me if anybody responds to the queries given above. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
