JHBuild

JHBuild is a program that can be used to pull a number of modules from CVS, git, Subversion, arch, Bazaar, darcs, or tarballs and build them in the correct order. Unlike some build scripts, JHBuild lets you specify what modules you want built and it will then go and build those modules plus dependencies.

Although JHBuild was originally developed to build GNOME, it is now able to build a number of the modules in freedesktop.org CVS. It has been supporting a growing number of build types (e.g. standard autotools builds, python distutils builds, perl modules, and more specialized build types for things like mozilla), which usually makes extending it to handle new modules trivial.

External links

* [http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild JHBuild Home]
* [http://library.gnome.org/devel/jhbuild/unstable/ JHBuild Manual]