Gnome on Solaris

Encouraged by the small successes in my `Tuning Solaris adventure', I got the ambitious idea to get the latest Gnome on my SunBlade 100 machine. As I'm no root, this would come down to a full source-build and install by hand.

Quickly I found out about garnome, a package thet at least automatically selects, downloads and installs most gnome-related packages. The beginning looked good, but soon after that I got confronted with missing dependencies. Here's a list of what I did to solve these.

(Work in progress, did not succeed yet)

expat

  wget http://umn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/expat/expat-1.95.8.tar.gz
  tar zxvf expat-1.95.8.tar.gz
  cd expat-1.95.8
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/expat/1.95.8
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/expat
  ln -s 1.95.8/ current

XML::Parser

Another problem in garnome install at package shared-mime-info

  perl Makefile.PL `cat ~/.perl_dirs`
  make make test
  make install

And to add this local lib to perl @INC:

  PERL5LIB=$LIBROOT/perl5/site_perl; export PERL5LIB

JPEG libs

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/jpeg-6b.tar.gz
  tar zxvf jpeg-6b.tar.gz
  cd jpeg-6b
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/jpeg/6b \
    --enable-shared --enable-static
  make
  mkdir $PKGROOT/jpeg
  mkdir $PKGROOT/jpeg/6b
  mkdir $PKGROOT/jpeg/6b/bin
  mkdir $PKGROOT/jpeg/6b/man
  mkdir $PKGROOT/jpeg/6b/man/man1
  mkdir $PKGROOT/jpeg/6b/include
  mkdir $PKGROOT/jpeg/6b/lib
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/jpeg/
  ln -s 6b/ current

ZLIB libs

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz
  tar zxvf zlib-1.2.1.tar.gz
  cd zlib-1.2.1
  ./configure --shared --prefix=$PKGROOT/zlib/1.2.1
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/zlib
  ln -s 1.2.1/ current

PNG libs

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/libpng-1.2.7.tar.gz
  tar zxvf libpng-1.2.7.tar.gz
  cd libpng-1.2.7
  cp scripts/makefile.solaris Makefile
  nano -w Makefile
  !!! editten
  make
  mkdir $PKGROOT/libpng
  mkdir $PKGROOT/libpng/1.2.7
  make install

Finding shared graphics libraries

For later linking against the shared libraries:

  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/jpeg/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/zlib/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PKGROOT/libpng/current/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
  export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

TIFF libs

  wget ftp://ftp.remotesensing.org/pub/libtiff/tiff-3.7.0.tar.gz
  tar zxvf tiff-3.7.0.tar.gz
  cd tiff-3.7.0
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/tiff/3.7.0 \
    --with-zlib-include-dir=$PKGROOT/zlib/current/include \
    --with-zlib-lib-dir=$PKGROOT/zlib/current/lib \
    --with-jpeg-include-dir=$PKGROOT/jpeg/current/include \
    --with-jpeg-lib-dir=$PKGROOT/jpeg/current/lib \
    --with-x
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/tiff
  ln -s 3.7.0/ current

GNU gettext

(To support future build of popt)

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/gettext-0.14.1.tar.gz
  tar zxvf gettext-0.14.1.tar.gz
  cd gettext-0.14.1
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/gettext/0.14.1 --with-lib-expat-prefix=$PKGROOT/expat/current
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/gettext
  ln -s 0.14.1/ current

popt

Back to the garnome install: failure since ORBit2 needs popt>=1.5

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/popt-1.7.tar.gz
  tar zxvf popt-1.7.tar.gz
  cd popt-1.7
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/popt/1.7
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/popt
  ln -s 1.7/ current

Fontconfig

(I think garnome install complained about xft-config, but fontconfig is probably necessary, as xft2 depends on it)

  wget http://freedesktop.org/~fontconfig/release/fontconfig-2.2.96.tar.gz
  tar zxvf fontconfig-2.2.96.tar.gz
  cd fontconfig-2.2.96
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/fontconfig/2.2.96 \
    --with-expat=$PKGROOT/expat/current \
    --with-expat-includes=$PKGROOT/expat/current/include \
    --with-expat-lib=$PKGROOT/expat/current/lib \
    --with-confdir=$ETCROOT/fonts
  make
  make install
  cd $PKGROOT/fontconfig
  ln -s 2.2.96/ current

Freedesktop stuff: XFT and more

hm, I got render, xrender, xcursor and xft2, but the latter fails on some redefinition of function bcopy. All installed in $PKGROOT/X11R6/misc

Thinking of switching to XFCE now, but that also needs gtk+ (which is GLib, Pango, ATK, and GTK+). Oh boy...

pango

  wget ftp://ftp.sunfreeware.com/pub/freeware/SOURCES/pango-1.2.5.tar.gz
  tar zxvf pango-1.2.5.tar.gz
  cd pango-1.2.5
  ./configure --prefix=$PKGROOT/pango/1.2.5 --with-x --with-xft-config-dir=$ETCROOT/fonts/fonts.conf

Problems:

checking for IceConnectionNumber in -lICE... yes                               
checking for pkg-config... /usr/local/bin/pkg-config                           
checking for fontconfig >= 1.0.1... sh: gnome-config: not found                
sh: gnome-config: not found                                                    
Package fontconfig was not found in the pkg-config search path.                
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `fontconfig.pc'                
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable                                    
No package 'fontconfig' found                                                  
configure: WARNING: No fontconfig found, skipping tests for FreeType and Xft   
checking for pkg-config... (cached) /usr/local/bin/pkg-config                  
checking for GLIB - version >= 2.1.3... sh: gnome-config: not found            
sh: gnome-config: not found                                                    
no                                                                             
*** Could not run GLIB test program, checking why...                           
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means GLIB is incorrectly installed.
configure: error:                                                              
*** Glib 2.1.3 or better is required. The latest version of                    
*** Glib is always available from ftp://ftp.gtk.org/.                          

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