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@@ -166,20 +166,10 @@ for your binding. Bootstrapping D-Bus on new platforms === -A full build of D-Bus, with all regression tests enabled and run, has some -dependencies which themselves depend on D-Bus, either for compilation or -for some of *their* regression tests: GLib, dbus-glib and dbus-python are -currently affected. - -To avoid circular dependencies, when bootstrapping D-Bus for the first time -on a new OS or CPU architecture, you can either cross-compile some of -those components, or choose the build order and options carefully: - -* build and install D-Bus without tests - - do not use the --enable-modular-tests=yes configure option - - do not use the --enable-tests=yes configure option -* build and install GLib, again without tests -* use those versions of libdbus and GLib to build and install dbus-glib -* ... and use those to install dbus-python -* rebuild libdbus; this time you can run all of the tests -* rebuild GLib; this time you can run all of the tests +A full build of dbus, with all regression tests enabled and run, depends +on GLib. A full build of GLib, with all regression tests enabled and run, +depends on dbus. + +To break this cycle, don't enable full test coverage (for at least one +of those projects) during bootstrapping. You can rebuild with full test +coverage after you have built both dbus and GLib at least once. |