BenV's notes

RAaaah, I’d be soo happy if everyone collectively decided to drop this piece of twine into a big fire…. blegh.

So I want gmpc…. so I build libmpd, no issues at all. Libsoup is next, which somehow wants gnome-common or something because of CVS requirements or whatever its problem is today. So I try configure –without-gnome and it breaks. Ok, that’s obviously the fault of libsoup, however, I decide to go through with the gnome garbage once more and make the fatal mistake of trying to build those things.

gnome-common goes without much issues. (oh, needless to say I always take the last version I find, 2.26 today I think). Next it seems to need libproxy, also no issues. Orbit(ch)-2  is next, also goes without hassle. So far so good

But then, GConf. That monstrosity requires 12837189347 other things, but worse: THEY NEED TO BE RECENT! (of course the simple solution would be to downgrade it, but that’s for later). So we start… ” No package ‘polkit-dbus’ found”. Great. So I get Policykit, 0.93. But nooo, that needs eggdbus. FINE! So eggdbus it is (0.5), but nooo, that needs a more recent version of $something. Version 0.4 it is! “Requested ‘glib-2.0 >= 2.19.0′ but version of GLib is 2.18.4″ RAAAH!@#(!@#%*(@#.  (long live slackbuild, speeds things up a ton!)

Yeah, right now I’m getting pretty tired of gnome again… why was I building all this crap? And I’m not even halfway there. Probably a good thing to continue tomorrow on a fresh brain…. and I’ll be sure to take 3 year old versions then. Or maybe 1 year old, since the 3 year old garbage doesn’t build with recent compilers. *sigh*