[Sugar-devel] Building Sugar on Fedora 27

[Alex Cosmin Mihai]

Hello!

I've tried to build Sugar from source code from github repositories in
order to start working on some bugs, but it just won't work.

I've done a couple of new clean installs of Fedora 27 in order to try
different methods, but none worked.

I've tried both sugar-build and manually cloning  every repository and
install every module as is pointed here:
https://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html [1].

Installing everything using sugar-build doesn't work. The python script
crashes and I've tried to edit it, but I still didn't manage to get it
working. The point is that sugar-build doesn't work as it is on Fedora 27.
One of the reasons is webkitgtk3 which is not supported anymore by Fedora
and which was removed from Fedora's repositories.

I did manage to install every module one by one as shown at [1], I believe
that's because Fedora 27 comes with webkitgtk4, I don't know why it didn't
give an error again, maybe the modules have been individually updated to
not ask for webkitgtk3 anymore. But even though I managed to install the
modules, using Sugar DE doesn't work anymore after installing them. Logging
in using Sugar does nothing but show a blank screen. Sugar-runner gives
some errors related to the X server about not finding some symbols. I can't
open a terminal from the blank screen or anything for that matter.

Sugar DE works on a clean Fedora 27 installation though. I believe that
there must be some sort of clash between the newer versions of the
dependencies that are installed when building the project and Sugar DE.

What can I do to start trying to fix bugs? I'm ready to install a different
distro. What do you use ? Have you encountered these problems with Fedora?

Thank you!

Best regards,
Alex Mihai

[1] https://developer.sugarlabs.org/dev-environment.md.html
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