{"id":23,"date":"2004-02-01T07:09:01","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T12:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=23"},"modified":"2004-02-01T07:09:01","modified_gmt":"2004-02-01T12:09:01","slug":"building-gnome-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/02\/01\/building-gnome-25","title":{"rendered":"Building GNOME 2.5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going with jhbuild<\/a> to get GNOME 2.5 compiled was most fun. It had 88 modules to compile, most of which were performed seamlessly, and went things went bad, I installed appropriate packages. I did a stock Workstation install of Fedora Core 1 to begin. I used jamesh’s sample .jhbuildrc, which loaded stuff into \/opt\/gtk2 (I’ll have to rebuild at some stage with Mozilla stuff as I’ve modified the sample.jhbuildrc now).<\/p>\n

First error came with shared-mime-info<\/tt> (#132899<\/a>), and I ignored it. Next hit was the gnome-vfs<\/tt> module requiring libbz2. Solved easily by yum install bzip2-devel<\/tt>. At module 27\/88, we have the icon theme issue (#107979<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I was still ridden with a few more errors: 69\/88 nautilus-media<\/tt>, 80\/88 mozilla-gtkmozembed<\/tt> (the .jhbuildrc I used ignored Mozilla, so this is acceptable), 81\/88 gnomemeeting<\/tt> whining about aclocal errors, and 85\/88 glade<\/tt>. That said, I followed the README from the cvs checkout and it told me to add a file to \/etc\/X11\/gdm\/Sessions<\/tt>; I tried, but did not get far sadly (5.45am, sleepy, tired).<\/p>\n

The “correct”, Fedora way is to go to \/etc\/X11\/dm\/Sessions<\/tt>, and create an executable file called jhbuild.desktop<\/tt>. It’s contents are:
\n[Desktop Entry]<\/tt>
\nEncoding=UTF-8<\/tt>
\nName=GNOME2.6<\/tt>
\nComment=GNOME2.6<\/tt>
\nExec=\/home\/byte\/bin\/jhbuild run \/opt\/gnome2\/bin\/gnome-session<\/tt>
\nIcon=<\/tt>
\nType=Application<\/tt><\/p>\n

GNOME2.6 will be an option in your GDM now, so login, and have a ball of a time. I’m testing it now, and most of everything works wonderfully.<\/p>\n

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