jhbuild error on Mac OSX Lion

[John Ralls]

On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Derek Atkins wrote:

> John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> writes:
> 
>> On Jan 23, 2012, at 4:28 AM, Reuben Cummings wrote:
>> 
>>> *** Checking out icon-naming-utils *** [55/73]
>>> gunzip -dc "/Users/admin/gtk/source/pkgs/icon-naming-utils-0.8.90.tar.gz"
>>> | tar xf -
>>> 
>>> gzip: /Users/admin/gtk/source/pkgs/icon-naming-utils-0.8.90.tar.gz:
>>> not in gzip format
>>> *** Error during phase checkout of icon-naming-utils: could not unpack
>>> tarball (expected icon-naming-utils-0.8.90 dir) *** [55/73]
>>> 
>>> .........
>>> 
>>> I ran less on icon-naming-utils-0.8.90.tar.gz and it is an html file.
>> 
>> Well, just ducky. Tango has broken their website. I followed the link off of their download page in my browser and got the same error.
>> 
>> So here it is (the bz2 one) from my download archive. Copy it into ~/gtk/source/pkgs, delete the other one, and run.
> 
> I wonder if we should copy the dependent source tarballs onto our SF
> download page so we can stabilize our dependencies and not depend on the
> upstream keeping them for us?

Yes, for the short term. I suspect Tango is comatose, if not deceased. In the long term we need to get rid of libgnome, which will also get rid of the dependency on icon-naming-utils.

Regards,
John Ralls