Gnome-2.28.0 build notes

[DJ Lucas]

This is mostly for Wayne, but anyone else working on Gnome-2.28.0, I'm 
building in the /opt/gnome-2.28.0 prefix as opposed to /usr and thought 
these build notes might be useful.

1.   Not sure if it is explicitly necessary, but I updated to 
gnome-vfs-2.24.2 (2.24.1 is release for Gnome-2.28.0) for the new 
mime.cache format (mentioned in change log).

2. gnome-panel, gnome-settings-daemon, and nautilus - building in any 
prefix other than /usr breaks the icon installation...before running 
configure do the following:

For gnome-panel:
     for dir in icons/*/
     do
         sed -e 's at iconsdir = \$(datadir)@iconsdir = /usr/share@' \
             -i ${dir}Makefile.in
     done

For gnome-settings-daemon:
     sed -e 's at icondir = \$(datadir)@icondir = /usr/share@' \
         -i plugins/xrandr/Makefile.in

For nautilus:
     sed -e 's@\$(datadir)/icons/@/usr/share/icons/@g' \
         -i data/icons/Makefile.in

3.  libxklavier-4.0 still needs a fix for finding the correct xkb 
datadir  should use '--with-xkb-base=$XORG_PREFIX/share/X11/xkb|'| by 
default.  I uploaded a patch in the repo, but it is not suitable for 
upstream as it will break older versions of X (prior to Xorg IIRC...or 
however long the current xkb has been in place as I don't remember that 
far back) so it was not sent upstream.  At any rate, the switch should 
be added by default as it will not hurt the /usr installations.

4. gir-repository will need to have LFLAGS defined if gconf is not 
installed into /usr
'make LFAGS="$GNOME_PREFIX/lib" {,install}' (by default)
Also, it is throwing error on VTE (with new version) and not exiting on 
error..but I didn't look into it.

5. libunique tried to check it's own pc file before it was installed 
during the installation which results in a bunch of missing headers and 
resulting syntax error messages, but the installation exits with a zero 
status...I lazily installed it twice and all seems happy.

   LINK  libunique-1.0.la
Package unique-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `unique-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'unique-1.0' found
Package unique-1.0 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `unique-1.0.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
No package 'unique-1.0' found
In file included from <stdin>:4:
/sources/libunique-1.1.2/unique/uniqueapp.h:25:25: error: glib-object.h: 
No such file or directory
In file included from /sources/libunique-1.1.2/unique/uniqueapp.h:26,
                  from <stdin>:4:
...

6.  Need to add servicedir entries into /etc/dbus-1/system-local.conf 
and session-local.conf for $GNOME_PREFIX/share/{,system-}services.

That is all the further I am ATM (through zenity, working on libcanberra 
deps), but I'm quitting for the night.

-- DJ Lucas


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