[desktop-discuss] What authorities/profile needed to build and install from SFE?

[Kaiwai Gardiner]

On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 20:59 +0530, S h i v wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Kaiwai Gardiner
> <kaiwai.gardiner at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 13:50 +1200, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> >
> >  I have to admit, I've had the same problem as well, even when Software
> >  Installation is selected, it still doesn't compile. Worse, I think is
> >  when all the compiling and things are hidden from view, or the links to
> >  downloading source code are always broken. Its a nightmare from top to
> >  bottom.
> >
> 
> Any given spec file would be a build recipe that is verified on a
> particular build machine configuration.
> Attempting to build SFE on S10 or Indiana is not guaranteed to succeed
> (as of now) since SXDE is what is used as the build machine.
> That is not to say all spec files in SFE repo are always build clean ;)
> 
> -Shiv

What I find is worse is the fact that dependencies don't resolve; I
should be able to go 'compile this' point to a spec, and the the
dependencies are resolved.

Matthew