Condition of Gnome Shell (git) and its issues

Question

I had recently been able to build gnome-shell-git succesfully, but, after that, there have always been issues.
I have uploaded gnome-shell-git on AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29509, but it seems that there are some things that may be wrong on the deps:
1)gobject-instrospection needs to be built before clutter-git.
2)Clutter (git), on the other hand, often has build issues and can't be built with (1) installed first, even though it is required as a makedep. If we turn off gobject-introspection integration, we don't have Clutter-*.gir created.
Clutter 1.0.x on the other hand (the [extra] one), doesn't seem to be gobject-introspection aware, even though we *have* to include this dep.
3)If someone can build the (1) and (2), has issues, during compiling gnome-shell-git, where, during compilation, Mutter is being executed somehow (?) (you can see errors that occur only if mutter is being executed), with a strange mozjs error.
4)Last but not least, should we prefer Mutter (Metacity 3.x) from git.gnome.org, or the patched one from git.moblin.org (that already exists on AUR). Mutter seems not to respect my xf86-video-ati driver, since, if I turn on Mutter composition, I have no hardware acceleration (but software acceleration) and the fonts become very blurry. (of course I have 3D desktop composition for many months now with the other Window managers)
I'd like to have your opinion on what should be done to make gnome-shell work and to hear if someone could make gnome-shell work.
Last edited by flamelab (2009-09-01 03:33:58)

Answer 1

Well, it's frustrating:
CCLD libgnome-shell.la
CC test_recorder-shell-recorder.o
CC test_recorder-shell-recorder-src.o
CC test_recorder-test-recorder.o
CCLD test-recorder
GEN gnome-shell
GEN Big-1.0.gir
Window manager warning: Could not change to home directory /root.
(mutter:30396): mutter-WARNING **: Could not load library [/home/flamelab/Projects/gnome-shell/src/gnome-shell-build/src/libgnome-shell.la (libmozjs.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)]
(mutter:30396): mutter-CRITICAL **: failed to load plugins
Invalid GType: 'big_box_get_type'
failed to dump: Failed to find symbol 'big_box_get_type'
Command '['mutter', '--mutter-plugins=/home/flamelab/Projects/gnome-shell/src/gnome-shell-build/src/libgnome-shell.la', '--introspect-dump=/tmp/tmp-introspect6lyTA_/types.txt,/tmp/tmp-introspect6lyTA_/dump.xml']' returned non-zero exit status 1
make[3]: *** [Big-1.0.gir] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/flamelab/Projects/gnome-shell/src/gnome-shell-build/src'
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/flamelab/Projects/gnome-shell/src/gnome-shell-build/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/flamelab/Projects/gnome-shell/src/gnome-shell-build'
make: *** [all] Error 2
==> ERROR: Build Failed.
Aborting...
Well, the same error had another person:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-sh … 00169.html
but the devs seem to be SO jhbuild dependent that they don't know what goes wrong. So they can't help him.
So, what's going on ?