Gentoo 10.0

GNOME 2.28

Build requirements

• gobject-introspection requires dev-libs/libffi

Problems

• Problem: python cannot find site.py
  • Solution: Add these lines to you .jhbuildrc, changing the Python version where appropriate

    addpath('PYTHONPATH', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages')
    addpath('PYTHONPATH', os.path.join(prefix, 'lib/python2.6/site-packages'))

• Problem: gtk-doc can't find xml2po

  • Solution: add your jhbuild prefix (defined on .jhbuildrc) in your PATH (i.e: export=$PATH:/opt/gnome2/bin) and also to your .jhbuildrc

    addpath('PYTHONPATH', '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages')
    addpath('PYTHONPATH', os.path.join(prefix, 'lib/python2.6/site-packages'))
    addpath('PYTHONPATH', '/opt/gnome2/bin')

• Problem: gnome-doc-utils fails at configure stage because of m4 or other automake black-voodoo things
  • jhbuild bootstrap --ignore-system is your friend (seems it doesn't like system's automake versions)

Gentoo 2005.1

Building GNOME 2.12

Build Requirements

Needs improvement. From a Gentoo 2005.1 system with gnome 2.12.1:

• Evolution Data Server needed: openldap, at least mozilla versiob 1.7.12 , mit-krb5.
• vte needed at gettext version 0.14.5.
• lynx
• docbook-sgml-utils (USE="tetex")
• doxygen
• pyrex

Usual problems

• Running jhbuild sanitycheck complained about missing db2html though docbook-sgml-utils is installed. The solution is set a link with ln -s /usr/bin/docbook2html /usr/bin/db2html.

• The first module (libxml2) fails with

  ...
  aclocal: couldn't open directory `/usr/local/share/aclocal': No such file or directory
  ...
  ./configure: line 1338: syntax error near unexpected token `config.h'
  ./configure: line 1338: `AM_CONFIG_HEADER(config.h)'
  Now type 'make' to compile libxml.
  *** Building libxml2 *** [1/121]
  make -j2
  make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
  *** error during stage build of libxml2: could not build module *** [1/121]

  • The solution again is to set a link: ln -s /usr/share/aclocal /usr/local/share/

• Problem: Building fontconfig fails with "No way to convert HTML to text found."

  • Solution: emerge lynx. (Thanx to gnomebangalore.org JHBUILD FAQs).

• Problem: Building fontconfig fails with "docbook2pdf: command not found."

  • Solution: USE="tetex" emerge docbook-sgml-utils.

• Problem: Building howl fails with:

  configure: error:
  *** [Gentoo] sanity check failed! ***
  *** libtool.m4 and ltmain.sh have a version mismatch! ***
  *** (libtool.m4 = 1.5.22, ltmain.sh = 1.4.2) ***
  Please run:
    libtoolize --copy --force
  if appropriate, please contact the maintainer of this
  package (or your distribution) for help.
  make: *** [config.status] Error 1

  • Solution:

    cd ~/lab/cvs/gnome2/howl-1.0.0/
    libtoolize --copy --force
    aclocal
    automake

• Problem: Building dbus python bindings fails with

  pyrexc ./dbus_bindings.pyx -I. -o ./dbus_bindings.c
  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/pyrexc", line 7, in ?
      from Pyrex.Compiler.Main import main
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Pyrex/Compiler/Main.py", line 13, in ?
      from Scanning import PyrexScanner
    File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/Pyrex/Compiler/Scanning.py", line 6, in ?
      import cPickle as pickle
  ImportError: /usr/lib/python2.4/lib-dynload/cPickle.so: undefined symbol: PyUnicodeUCS4_AsUTF8String
  make[3]: *** [dbus_bindings.c] Error 1
  make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/eddy/lab/cvs/gnome2/dbus/python'
  make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
  make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/eddy/lab/cvs/gnome2/dbus/python'
  make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
  make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/eddy/lab/cvs/gnome2/dbus'
  make: *** [all] Error 2

  • Possibly related with bug #311563.

  • Solution: More of a workaround. This doesn't scale...

    # open a new shell outside jhbuild's environment
    cd ~/lab/cvs/gnome2/dbus/python
    pyrexc dbus_bindings.pyx -I. -o dbus_bindings.c
    pyrexc dbus_glib_bindings.pyx -I. -o dbus_glib_bindings.c

  • Solution: Works for me every time. Add these lines to you .jhbuildrc

    os.environ['PYTHONHOME'] = prefix
    addpath('PYTHONPATH', '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages')
    addpath('PYTHONPATH', os.path.join(prefix, 'lib/python2.4/site-packages'))

• Problem: Building libxklavier fails with "/bin/sh: doxygen: command not found".

  • Solution: emerge doxygen

• Problem: vte fails with:

  libpangocairo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `g_intern_static_string'
  libpangocairo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `g_slice_alloc'
  libpangocairo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `g_slice_alloc0'
  libpangocairo-1.0.so: undefined reference to `g_slice_free1'

  • Possibly related to http://mail.gnome.org/archives/garnome-list/2006-January/msg00122.html

  • Filed as : https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330369

• Problem: ekiga requires pwlib 1.11.0, portage only has 1.8.7

  • Filed as: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122084

Jhbuildrc file

With a 2005-11-24 jhbuild I was a able to compile a debug version of gnome 2.13.2 from 2005-11-24 to 2005-11-25. It was done on a Gentoo 2005.1 with gnome 2.12.1 system.

gentoo-gnome-2.13.2-jhbuildrc.txt

CategoryJhbuild