[Sugar-devel] running sugar in jhbuild

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 07:31, Erik Blankinship <erikb at mediamods.com> wrote:
> I continue to have trouble getting jhbuild to run.  I hope the community can
> help me with installation best practices so that all new developers can
> easily contribute.

For developing activities, I recommend getting a recent version of
Fedora and installing whatever version of Sugar is packaged there.

Otherwise people will need to learn to install autofoo packages.

Regards,

Tomeu

> I am on a fresh f13 installation on a laptop that has run sugar-jhbuild in
> the past.
>
> I removed my previous jhbuild and git'd a fresh clone per the instructions
> on the wiki.
>
> When I tried to run the emulator, I got this [new] error:
> "Window manager warning: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily
> unavailable) on display ':30'."
>
> Not sure what to do about that (related to GConf-dbus?) I tried the
> workaround described by Simon on #2142.
>
> Unfortunately, I crash in the build process:
>
> make[3]: Entering directory
> `/home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/data'
> make[3]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
> test -z "/home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/applications"
> || /bin/mkdir -p
> "/home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/applications"
>  /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 sugar-emulator.desktop
> '/home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/install/share/applications'
> GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=xml:merged:/home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/install/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
> /home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/install/bin/gconftool-2
> --makefile-install-rule sugar.schemas 2>&1 > /dev/null
> /bin/sh: /home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/install/bin/gconftool-2: No
> such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [install-data-local] Error 127
> make[3]: Leaving directory
> `/home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/data'
> make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/data'
> make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/home/erikb/Desktop/sweet/sugar-jhbuild/source/sugar/data'
> make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
> *** Error during phase install of sugar: ########## Error running make
> install *** [7/21]
>
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