[Sugar-devel] sugar-build on archlinux without broot

[Gaurav Parida]

So, is sugar-build now installed as a dual-boot with ArchLinux ?
I didn't know that we could set up sugar-build in such a way. when I get
time, I will also try to do it with Ubuntu.

+1 for adding it to the docs.


On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Sam Parkinson <sam.parkinson3 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the tips :) We should definitely put a link in the docs
> On Mar 9, 2014 2:07 PM, "Sebastian Silva" <sebastian at fuentelibre.org>
> wrote:
>
>>  Hello,
>> My machine is somewhat constrained in ram and diskspace so running Fedora
>> on a chroot was slow enough
>> that I decided to set *"use_broot":false* on *prefs.json* with the
>> intention of running the latest sugar natively.
>>
>> I face a few issues:
>>
>> First, *automake* gave me some issues, it was refusing to build with a
>> cryptic error, it was because I needed to install the *ccache* package.
>> Then, automake wanted to install to /usr/local/bin, so I changed group
>> permissions to /usr/local (I did chgrp wheel /usr/local/*;; chmod g+w
>> /usr/local/*). This installed automake.
>> By the way, I don't think this process was required because my system's
>> automake is newer than the one sugar-build installed. I'll look into this.
>>
>> Then issues ocurred with gwebsockets. It persistently tried to use
>> python3.3, my system's default, instead of python2.7. Finally I found the
>> culprit, in
>> ./out/sandbox/install/lib/python2.7/site-packages/osbuild/build.py I
>> replaced in line 190 one instance of "python" for "python2.7" and it worked
>> after that.
>>
>> Finally when building sugar-base I had to set up the environment variable
>> PYTHON=/usr/bin/python2.7 in order for it to build.
>> Also, when building sugar, I had to manually create the directory
>> "./out/install/etc/gconf/" or it would fail to install
>>
>> I know this is unsupported but I just wanted to share in case somebody
>> would like to setup a dev environment in archlinux. I like that it's
>> rolling release and I won't have to worry about ever upgrading to the next
>> version. My main intention is to have a nice setup for building activities,
>> test latest sugar and also try to help diagnose the performance issues gtk3
>> sugar has.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sebastian
>>
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