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| author | Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> | 2006-04-15 03:35:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Elijah Newren <newren@src.gnome.org> | 2006-04-15 03:35:38 +0000 |
| commit | a03e78210f97a2fba4b0c78d5a5b4c05e20a8779 (patch) | |
| tree | 7b51c02caa295d47136de5880b92adc671e3cb3d | |
| parent | ecf75915b95be8046c546a5888e2047ed0280da5 (diff) | |
| download | metacity-a03e78210f97a2fba4b0c78d5a5b4c05e20a8779.tar.gz | |
Include instructions on setting up a minimal building/testing environment
2006-04-14 Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>
* HACKING: Include instructions on setting up a minimal
building/testing environment
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@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2006-04-14 Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> + + * HACKING: Include instructions on setting up a minimal + building/testing environment + 2006-04-14 Thomas Thurman <thomas@thurman.org.uk> Add a tabbing function, bound to alt-f6 by default, to cycle @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ is nonetheless useful. Overview Administrative issues + Minimal Building/Testing Environment Relevant standards and X properties Debugging and testing Debugging logs @@ -34,6 +35,27 @@ Administrative issues instructions is that the minor version number of a Metacity release should always be a number from the Fibonacci sequence. +Minimal Building/Testing Environment + You do not need to _install_ a development version of Metacity to + build, run and test it; you can run it from some temporary + directory. Also, you do not need to build all of Gnome in order to + build a development version of Metacity -- odds are, you can build + metacity from CVS without building any other modules. + + As long as you have gtk+ >= 2.6 with your distro, you should be able + to install your distro's development packages (e.g. gtk2-devel, + GConf2-devel, and startup-notification-devel on Fedora) and be ready + to build and test Metacity. Steps to do so: + + $ cvs -q -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.gnome.org:/cvs/gnome \ + checkout metacity + $ cd metacity + $ ./autogen.sh --prefix /usr + $ make + $ ./src/metacity --replace + + Again, note that you do not need to run 'make install'. + Relevant standards and X properties There are two documents that describe some basics about how window managers should behave: the ICCCM (Inter-Client Communication Conventions |