GNOME 2.4 beta 1 - Tarballs due

ventricle · Guru Joined: 04 Apr 2003 Posts: 305 Location: UK/Australia

I tried compiling also with -O2, but that didn't work.
I wonder if this mad (no pun) program is required, or what needs it. I searched the net but didn't find any other person with problems compiling it.
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akb · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 11:57 am Post subject:

hah, gotta laugh. linc is deprecated, right? but now i get an error compiling libgnome (while upgrading to 2.4beta) related to unresolved symbols in linc. how can that be? if it is noe in ORBit2: i have already upgraded ORBit2. whats wrong here?

Lovechild · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 12:09 pm Post subject:

maxmc · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 12:10 pm Post subject:

Start on page 3 in the old thread and then move forward to see the instructions.

revdep is your friend

BTW Why didnt emerge -p world show all updated packages? I only got the new collected gnome ebuild but that didn't install the new gnome-session and the new gtk+ etc.

akb · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 12:15 pm Post subject:

mh thx, i thought i had to do that only after merging gnome, to fix other apps. didnt know that gnome itself is affected too.

btw: now i saw it @ ORBit2: when unmerging linc-1.1.1 there is a linc-2.7.6 installed instead... wondered why. but when i tried to unmerge this too i noticed that it wanted to unmerge ORBit2. seems like ORBit2 is kind of a placeholder package for it in portage now. cancelled it, of course :-)

maxmc · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 12:43 pm Post subject:

WHY does gnome-session download xemacs?

akb · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 12:45 pm Post subject:

only god knows... *lol* try setting a useflag related to emacs or something. USE="-emacs" should do the trick

Verteron · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 189

akb · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 12:57 pm Post subject:

interesting too: even with revdep-ebuild it gives me the linc compile errors

maxmc · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 12:59 pm Post subject:

akb · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 6:15 pm Post subject:

uhm damn, so much to test around. isnt there any tip which packages have to be compiled first or something? if i test every single packages position, it takes days :-(

maxmc · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 9:54 pm Post subject:

akb · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 10:46 pm Post subject:

yep sorry, i didnt realize that there isnt a overall workaround or ordered list or something... my english isnt that good and i'm bloody tired *lol* sry

well, i think i got it now. at the very first i had to remerge libsrvg... after this the gimp/print things worked and the other stuff i got working by unmerging and remerging libbonobo(ui). also remerging some parts of gnome didnt really work without unmerging the old ones and merging the new ones without having any old version. best way is to simply unmerge old versions and directly the new ones i think. upgrading isnt that good.

i got half of my libs working now, only gnome-media caused bit of trouble, but i'm trying to merge the other stuff before it now... all essentially packages are already finished. after this i think i got to compile nearly all my gnome apps. but i'm lucky to have a running updated gnome now/soon, so the other programs are only a short way to get it right :-)

Ian · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 1:41 am Post subject:

For the new resolution changer, it says I need XrandR support in my X server. Is that, like DRI, automatically removed if running Xinerama? All this display stuff is starting to confuse me, and being sick on top of it isn't helping :p.

On the other hand, I've gotten it to compile, with a few errors. Several packages had to be injected, two out of gnome-extra, and gnome-games cause I couldn't wait another 20 minutes :p.

I'm having trouble with liblinc, but I'm trying that revdep-rebuild command, so far it's telling me stuff like "broken /usr/bin/gnotravex (requires liblinc.so.1)", and everything that's broken requires that one library. Maybe it'll fix itself later? I don't really want to use Fluxbox again, now that I'm all nice and used to Gnome :p.

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Oh, great...

That revdep-rebuild command wants to rebuild openoffice-ximian. I have a feeling this'll be going for at least a day. Oh well, what we do for our computers... :p
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IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

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IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

I just wanted to mention a few things about GNOME-2.4_beta1 ebuilds from breakmygentoo.net:

1) WOW! OMG! WOW WOW I am very impressed
2) This upgrade is not for the feable or fearsome
3) when you unmerge liblinc-beware lots of things break-like most anything which was linked against gnome (velocity /ximian-open-office/ abiword/evolution/ gst-player/gnomesu etc)
4) I have resorted to remerging linc-after having completed the update-so I can use velocity(which won't compile after the update) and ximian-openoffice(which didn't compile for me so I am using a kindly posted binary package....)
5) I built the whole thing with :CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -pipe -ffast-math -mmmx -msse -msse2 -mfpmath=sse,387 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -falign-functions=4 -maccumulate-outgoing-args" using distcc-had no real problems
6)Did I mention WOW- this is really, really fast
7) nautilus-cd-burner is GAWD- it actually works without any setup whatsoever- unlike my previous fav. k3b-which gave me 3 coasters yesterday(how, oh how did the gnome guys figure out how to do this ? it just works ! WOW)
8.) unfortunately my panel crashes each time at boot-but after I click the error message away it works fine....
9) the gnome boot splash really likes hanging around a really long time
10) my KDE menu in the top menu bar vanished- no idea where it went or how to
get it back...
11) unrelated to the gnme-beta-but pertains to latest gnome stuff
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I finally got abiword2 working: modified the ebuild to look like this:

Ian · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject:

maxmc · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 6:19 pm Post subject:

Using the gst-plugins ebuild from above I get this error in the configure phase:

maw · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 8:02 pm Post subject:

Woohoo! I finally got it working, thanks to being able to SSH into my home box from work and run builds all day (much praise go to cable modems, SSH and screen here).

GNOME 2.4.0 beta 1 feels a lot faster than 2.2.whatever I was running before (the lastest release, whatever that was). Recompiling everything was a right pain - doesn't this break ABI compatibility? I thought they weren't supposed to be doing that. But they have and now it's working it's almost worth the pain. Seems reasonably stable, although as usual with a FreeType upgrade various things are behaving strangely with the font rendering, which I find supremely irritating.

Epiphany needs some work though. Favicon support would be nice...
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Toth · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 23 Feb 2003 Posts: 133

IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

maxmc,

I get the same error message-I honestly have no clue as to whats going on-I compared :
X11/extensions/Xvlib.h from xfree-4.3.0-r3 and xfree-4.3.0-r2 and there were no changes....really don't have a clue....But after having used gst-player to watch DVD's(encrypted) xv must be working- get fullscreen with good FPS, and only xv gives performs that well on my machine(mplayer)

It should be noted -the gst-plugins ebuild listed above is a *total* hack- I would bury my head in the sand before claiming it to be mine.......*BUT* it works, aside from this xv thing.....

Also I renamed rhythmbox-0.4.99.4 to 0.5.1(I also changed the URI to:
SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/rhythmbox/0.5/${P}.tar.gz")

and then emerged it- worked fine-although I can't see any difference between the two versions, but then again- I would not even know where to look. One little footnote though- I found it fascinating how a conflict arose while playing songs with rhythmbox-it seems that when rhythmbox was playing, my gnome terminal got confused about its current path- it reported some error about getcwd.....I closed rhythmbox and the problem was gone...only happened once, can't understand how they could be related....

ruronikenshin83 · n00b Joined: 25 Mar 2003 Posts: 42

I'm not sure if this counts as a problem with Gnome 2.4 Beta 1.

When I watch a video file using mplayer 0.90-r2 and I use fullscreen, if the main Gnome panel (with Applications and Actions) is at the top of the screen, then it stays there, even though it should be hidden while I'm in fullscreen. (which incidentally also pushes the vid file down a bit, to compensate for the positioning of the Gnome panel... a huge annoyance since the video file i'm referring to is subtitle'd anime and this pushes the subtitles just out of my sight...)

However, when the Gnome panel is placed in any other position (left, right, bottom) it no longer appears when I fullscreen mplayer.

I've already tried recompiling mplayer, but it doesn't have any effect on this issue. (I've also tried recompiling gnome-panel, but that didn't work either)

Is anyone else experiencing the same irregularities with the way the panel works?

Also, as an addendum to that, for some reason, when I load mplayer, all of the titlebars for my open applications go away and are redrawn after a second or so... o_0

amasidlover · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2003 8:11 am Post subject:

Overall Gnome 2.4 beta 1 has some improvements, however its caused some odd problems with Evolution 1.4.4 (which I recompiled after installing Gnome 2.4 and removing linc).

evolution-wombat appears to keep freezing, when I try to close evolution it hangs until I do a killall -HUP evolution-wombat, and occasionally evolution completely freezes, again this is solved by killall -HUP evolution-wombat. Finally it doesn't show attachment's when you are composing mail, it attaches them (they arrive ok) but they do not appear in the space at the bottom for attachments - which does appear, but is empty.

Also I'm still having .Xauthority problems since upgrading. Has anyone else seen these and which bugzilla should I be reporting them to if not? The breakmygentoo one, the evolution one, the xfree one or all of them?

swat · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jul 2002 Posts: 144

Verteron · Apprentice Joined: 23 Jul 2003 Posts: 189

Try updating metacity from the Gnome CVS, there have been a few bugs fixed in the last few days. Here are the steps to update to the latest version: