Live builds (was: Merged proto package)

[Peter Hutterer]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:16:22PM +0100, David Gerard wrote:
> On 18 April 2010 17:21, Joel Feiner <jafeiner at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Or you could use build.sh or jhbuild or moral equivalent.  For testing, I
> > have an entire X system checked out and use jhbuild to update it.  It also
> > automatically saves your work (via git stash) so you can deal with merge
> > conflicts later.  You also don't have to worry about hunting for
> > dependencies and configuring those individually and manually.
> > http://wiki.x.org/wiki/JhBuildInstructions
> > It's non-trivial, but not terribly complex to set up.  And once it's set up,
> > you can pretty much forget about most of what's on that page.  You just run
> > jhbuild -f modular-buildrc build xserver or whatever and you're good to go.
> 
> 
> I spent a little while playing with jhbuild under various operating
> systems a while ago. Once jhbuild is installed and working it's
> fantastic, but setting it up is an a*se and a half. And *no-one* seems
> to package it.

just out of interest: did you document that setup process to the wiki
somewhere?
(it might already be there, I haven't used jhbuild in years)

Cheers,
  Peter

> Please add to the build instructions on the wiki page for other
> distros :-) I never could get it working on FreeBSD or Debian squeeze
> ...
>