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@@ -140,3 +140,24 @@ Note that the high-level bindings are _separate projects_ from the main D-Bus package, and have their own release cycles, levels of maturity, and ABI stability policies. Please consult the documentation 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 |