-If you want to hack on the Gtk+ project, it will make you life easier
-to have the following packages installed:
+If you want to hack on the GTK+ project, you'll need to have
+the following packages installed:
- - GNU autoconf 2.12
- - GNU automake 1.3
- (Beta releases are at ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tromey)
- - GNU libtool 1.2
+ - GNU autoconf 2.62
+ - GNU automake 1.11
+ - GNU libtool 2.2
+ - indent (GNU indent 1.9.1 is known good)
+ - GNU gettext 10.40
These should be available by ftp from ftp.gnu.org or any of the
fine GNU mirrors. Beta software can be found at alpha.gnu.org.
-If you are accessing gtk+ via CVS, then you will need to take several
-steps to get it to compile. You can do all these steps at once
-by running:
+Up-to-date instructions about developing GNOME applications and libraries
+can be found here:
- cvsroot/gtk+# ./autogen.sh
-
-Basically this does the following for you:
+ http://library.gnome.org/devel/
- cvsroot/gtk+# aclocal; automake; autoconf
- cvsroot/gtk+/glib# aclocal; automake; autoconf
+Information about using git with GNOME can be found here:
- The above commands create the "configure" script. Now you
- can run the configure script in cvsroot/gtk+ to create all
- the Makefiles. You only need to call "configure" in cvsroot/gtk+
- as the one in glib will be invoked automatically.
+ http://live.gnome.org/Git
-Before running autogen.sh or configure, make sure you have libtool
-in your path.
+In order to get GIT GTK+ installed on your system, you need to have
+the most recent GIT versions of GLib, Pango, and ATK installed as well.
+The installation process of these libraries is similar to that of GTK+,
+but needs to be fulfilled prior to installation of GTK+.
-Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass
-options like --prefix=/usr to configure you can give those options
-to autogen.sh and they will be passed on to configure.
+If at all possible, please use GIT to get the latest development version of
+gtk+ and glib. You can do the following to get glib and gtk+ from GIT:
+
+ $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/glib
+ $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/pango
+ $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/atk
+ $ git clone git://git.gnome.org/gtk+
-If at all possible, please use CVS to get the latest development version of
-gtk+. You can do the following to get gtk+ from cvs:
+Note: if you plan to push changes to back to the master repository and
+have a gnome account, you want to use the following instead:
- $ export CVSROOT=':pserver:anonymous@cvs.gimp.org:/debian/home/gnomecvs'
- $ cvs login
- (there is no password, just hit return)
- $ cvs -z9 checkout gtk+
+ $ git clone ssh://<username>@git.gnome.org/git/gtk+
-Please submit patches to the gtk-list@redhat.com mailing list (you must
-subscribe before you post, e-mail gtk-list-request@redhat.com with a
-subject of "subscribe"). All kinds of contributions are accepted.
-Patches that you wish to go into the distribution should also be uploaded
-to ftp://ftp.gimp.org/incoming. Follow the rules there for naming your
-patches.
+To compile the GIT version of GTK+ on your system, you will need to take
+several steps to setup the tree for compilation. You can do all these
+steps at once by running:
+
+ gtk+$ ./autogen.sh
+
+Basically this does the following for you:
+
+ gtk+$ aclocal; automake; autoconf
+
+The above commands create the `configure' script. Now you
+run the `configure' script in `gtk+/' to create all Makefiles.
+More information about that in `INSTALL'.
+
+Before running `autogen.sh' or `configure', make sure you have libtool
+in your path.
+
+Note that autogen.sh runs configure for you. If you wish to pass
+options like `--prefix=/usr' to `configure' you can give those options
+to `autogen.sh' and they will be passed on to `configure'.
+For information about submitting patches and pushing changes
+to GIT, see the `README' and `README.commits' files. In particular,
+don't, under any circumstances, push anything to GIT before
+reading and understanding `README.commmits'.