On 20 April 2010 23:44, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@who-t.net> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:29:28PM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
[ re: http://www.x.org/wiki/JhBuildInstructions ] >> Yes, if you look at the page you'll see I grovelled through setting it >> up from scratch on several distros! >> (I even tried on Solaris 10, but it was so much pain I just gave up ...) > in that case - thanks for your efforts! > seriously, I'd love it if everyone did that. we hear (or used to hear, > anyway) a lot of complaints about complicated setup processes and lack of > documentation but never had the followups on the wiki to fix this. so I > quite appreciate it that you followed through and documented it for others. One thing it really shows is the pervasiveness of the assumption that the whole world is a Linux box. Of course, it isn't - so a helpful thing would be for those not using Linux to show how to build jhbuild for their OSes. Basically, I could only beat it into building on Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora ... couldn't manage it on FreeBSD, Solaris 10 or Cygwin. (And presumably a better jhbuild for Xorg will mean a better jhbuild for GNOME on those platforms.) - d. _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel