Re: [Denemo-devel] Help Needed

[Richard Shann]

On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 09:26 -0600, Jeremiah Benham wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 08:17:54PM +0000, Richard Shann wrote:
>  The situation at present is that an experienced LilyPond developer is
> > unable to test run Denemo because he cannot install the development
> > libraries to build it without dependency problems with stuff he already
> > has and the GNU/Linux binary does not work on his Ubuntu system.
> > It means that the easiest way people can try the latest Denemo is to use
> > a proprietary operating system, which is Bad.
> 
> I have an ideas that should improve things. Maybe we could use gentoo to 
> build us a statically build denemo for GNU/linux.  So I took the stage 3 
> gentoo install tarball and uncompressed it into a dir. Then chrooted the 
> filesystem it created. Then I compiled denemo 1.1.0 in it. I set portage USE 
> varialbe to create static libs, creating .a files. I see that there are also 
> the dynamic .so files for the libs also. Denemo unfortunately is linking to 
> the .so instead. So if I can figure out how to fix that. Maybe I could try 
> building everything without shared libs.

I guess the thing to try first is evince, as that was where we ran into
the sand on MXE IIRC. (Perhaps also the gdk-pixbuf-loaders thing ...).

But from this, I gather that build .rpm and .deb packages is not a good
way to go? Or is it just that we need help or advice on whether that
would be useful?

Richard