I didn't get any response to my last question, so I am generalizing a bit
now.

Is it practicable to install Gnome from source?

It is a bunch of interrelated tarballs. Figuring out the dependencies in
order to get the right installation sequence and stepping through it
with './configure', 'make', 'make check', 'make install', 'make clean',
'make distclean' is a matter of days. The Gnome site contains no hint about
the matter.

Any hint?

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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 13:29:50 -0300, frank wrote:

> Any hint?

Didn't you just answer your own question?

On Sun, 29 Jun 2003 12:29:50 -0400, frankh wrote:

> I didn't get any response to my last question, so I am generalizing a
> bit now.
>
> Is it practicable to install Gnome from source?
>
> It is a bunch of interrelated tarballs. Figuring out the dependencies in
> order to get the right installation sequence and stepping through it
> with './configure', 'make', 'make check', 'make install', 'make clean',
> 'make distclean' is a matter of days. The Gnome site contains no hint
> about the matter.
>
> Any hint?

I feel your pain about the installation order. :-)

I assume you're trying to get an installation which is better tuned to
your system than you'd get from a binary distro.

What would happen if you first installed the binary distro to provide all
the dependancies, then proceeded to reinstall from source and overwrite
the existing binaries? (I'm just guessing this might work - please don't
beat on me too hard if it's a dumb idea.)

frankh@terra.com.br wrote:

> It is a bunch of interrelated tarballs. Figuring out the dependencies in
> order to get the right installation sequence and stepping through it
> with './configure', 'make', 'make check', 'make install', 'make clean',
> 'make distclean' is a matter of days. The Gnome site contains no hint
> about the matter.

.... if you wanna do all this building stuff, why not use a distro
that is designed as such from the front to the back: gentoo.org

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In article <bRILa.185$IN4.115@newssvr32.news.prodigy.com>, mjt wrote:
> frankh@terra.com.br wrote:
>
>> It is a bunch of interrelated tarballs. Figuring out the dependencies in
>> order to get the right installation sequence and stepping through it
>> with './configure', 'make', 'make check', 'make install', 'make clean',
>> 'make distclean' is a matter of days. The Gnome site contains no hint
>> about the matter.
>
> ... if you wanna do all this building stuff, why not use a distro
> that is designed as such from the front to the back: gentoo.org

GARNOME is a script (or a set of scripts) that help building and
installing the latest bleeding-edge GNOME from sources. I don't know if
you can use it to build the stable version though.

http://www.gnome.org/~jdub/garnome/

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Juha Siltala