Building Gnome 2.10 from source
I am in the process of building Gnome 2.10 from source code on my Ubuntu
5.04. The process is smooth throughout except that I had some wierd
problems in evolution-data-server
module. It was because of the
missing libnss-dev
package and I took a long time to figure it out
as the error was something else. Finally, installing libnss-dev
and
introducing a small workaround fixed the problem. I am now compiling the
72nd module (nautilus). In lot of modules, the configure stage will fail
because of the absence of some xyz-dev
package. Installing the
package and rerunning the configure took me till here without any
problem. The only extra work I did so far is for
evolution-data-server
. Once I complete this build, I am planning to
write a guide for building Gnome 2 on Debian quoting the issues that I
faced. It will be published in Gnome
Bangalore's Wiki page.
PS: I am not using the sources from Debian. I am getting the sources from Gnome CVS repository.