From owner-freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Wed May 2 07:52:54 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E55FC5385 for ; Wed, 2 May 2018 07:52:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from khanzf@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qt0-x229.google.com (mail-qt0-x229.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::229]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 799096E649 for ; Wed, 2 May 2018 07:52:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from khanzf@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qt0-x229.google.com with SMTP id f13-v6so7492071qtp.10 for ; Wed, 02 May 2018 00:52:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=subject:to:references:from:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding:content-language; bh=LZAWYTkKcnf6mPKw9eav7OWtlQa51pC2XspwMy8jvSM=; b=Afb6T+CAgnAmCXUs0q+unRsXKCVpqQT380L0nF/zLiDolCWknoI+GtNKYbmhDMLHD1 2ThrksVoOPctETMeJzTC4GFEWMaMZUXWQlUdJ1PCP82CCggmNnAjr3QNGUf/mGX5JeoE P20KnYgqXfbk6FoXoNQLOjLyC8vLJE5T3g1IXx8s1RbJGa9fQWXLLz11Z3TGres0ThvL 5YDaIOsxu5SQNySVJ5/0/0y//JbIEeMjM1T25hWDcly8vh/79rFkTe40SXFLrcLopIzs +vN/nnjwvrSd+zf3SGHbyNr2gvG1ETyxOf9Ia6Xsr1yUqjrA1LG24ApM/D+RSw0RKEsx 37pQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding :content-language; bh=LZAWYTkKcnf6mPKw9eav7OWtlQa51pC2XspwMy8jvSM=; b=SmDxFVDPr4cYwhmqZBdu7/FiFSwywYjP5EGpGyD81aPH/ygYbl8riqdCxwXOIJKH6q 2hcuLS2uaqdx5Po60Qc5GUbnb8azey/rl1ayz5jONSl/hXRS1gd90dF+hEvxNsj+85rQ umCNIACsTN170FT8l5ETNtvUmxBQlRmJOLZjkvTzCPn0eHWsOITDOYCOub8/ZR5K0F+U Ip8xDSFSNuir0MwkO8lhJngNo143SWQI3wPI4sk5OxlQMZ4c8h5u9lyu1IdmyKp4amSa NyY+vpxdvsLbn3Fkk+x7WNa2BsdExhnBVkAOqSz0yvZVZWDJUod3rBWexTjh7eo0AzP6 klHA== X-Gm-Message-State: ALQs6tCHVbjLgLOl8G7HbTfQBzVb3ENTe9L11Rh+GjTmBixCZazGpShZ IfzqdqVe6RH4g+UXFRHXgW6vuz2x X-Google-Smtp-Source: AB8JxZo1afnCNMMhg7ba+ObJYBcn4fXlRAgE5kRa4q1St4nJZPLmLFPv82svgRgERbPnXrHXTHwSTg== X-Received: by 2002:a0c:f381:: with SMTP id i1-v6mr15546153qvk.214.1525247572500; Wed, 02 May 2018 00:52:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc.farhan.codes ([2001:470:8:209:428d:5cff:fe13:b6bb]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 47-v6sm5715036qtw.4.2018.05.02.00.52.51 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 02 May 2018 00:52:51 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Re: Compiling Cinnamon Desktop To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org References: <284c79a6-ba75-3dfe-06d9-ea2dd7dd9f25@vishwin.info> From: Farhan Khan Message-ID: <3ce312f5-3302-80e1-a937-a2a90e8b8399@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 03:52:50 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <284c79a6-ba75-3dfe-06d9-ea2dd7dd9f25@vishwin.info> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.25 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 May 2018 07:52:54 -0000 On 04/29/2018 07:28 PM, Charlie Li wrote: > On 27/04/2018 18:05, Farhan Khan wrote: >> Literally the only reason I haven't switched my desktop from Linux Mint to >> FreeBSD is that I really like my Cinnamon theme. I would like to compile >> the latest version of Cinnamon and run it on FreeBSD, but haven't been able >> to figure out the process -- the one on their github repo is specific to >> Linux and even then it appears to error out very early on (I can provide >> the exact error if requested). >> > Cinnamon's build process requires using GNU make (devel/gmake) instead > of make in base, among other things. There also exist assorted patches > within this suite of ports to fix these BSD-specific errors. >> Are there any steps you have for compiling Cinnamon? I would really like to >> try to do so myself so I can get myself a current version of Cinammon? I >> believe the FreeBSD version is 2.4 and Cinnamon is up to 3.6 at this point. >> > I'm currently working on updating the suite of ports for internal > testing and public review. Just like you, I also liked using Cinnamon on > my previous operating system, although currently using MATE on FreeBSD > as an interim measure. Things have been slow on my end due to outside > factors, but quite a lot has changed between Cinnamon 2.4 and 3.6. > > I can report that I've updated most of the ports on my local ports tree; > there are still a few stragglers plus deciding how to include X-Apps. > Plus I'd like to clean up the port Makefiles a bit more for > maintainability's sake. > Hi Charlie, I would be interested in reviewing the build-process. Are there any documentation or notes on what the folks who built it did? It seems that it would be quite similar to MATE, but I could be wrong. Using gmake over make(1) is a trivial matter gmake(1). Is there anything more substantive that involves changing code? Thanks!