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Wed, 03 Nov 2010

Building GNOME with jhbuild, a.k.a. pain

Trivia: Who said less than a month ago, "Getting a jhbuild to finish is next to impossible".

Answer: Benjamin Otte. The #1 commiter to gtk+ in the last 1500 commits or so. The #1 commiter to cairo in the last 500 commits or so.

The problem isn't jhbuild so much, although moduleset options could probably be cleaned up a little bit more. It is with broken stuff in GNOME, or which GNOME depends on. Luckily for me, my build tree is not that large.

Poppler is not alone in my .jhbuildrc in ignoring gobject introspection stuff during a build any more - welcome pango!

Then gtk+ won't build. It was failing on a dependency to fontconfig, which was broken by a commit on October 6th. Or at least fontconfig's pkg-config metadata hint file was broken, for a number of people who use standard build options (like me), causing gtk+ not to build. I've emailed the person who made the commit.

I won't go into stuff higher up on the chain that depends on gtk+. Needless to say there's brokenness.

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