gnome-shell-50.4

Installation of GNOME Shell

First, fix a build problem when using gcc-16 or later:

sed -e '/(ICalProperty/s/ICalProperty/const &/' \
    -i src/calendar-server/gnome-shell-calendar-server.c

Install GNOME Shell by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson setup --prefix=/usr       \
            --buildtype=release \
            -D tests=false      \
            ..                  &&
ninja

To run the tests, ensure Mutter is installed after running its test suite, and issue:

meson configure -D tests=true &&
ninja test

You must be running in a Wayland session to run the tests. Some will fail if GDM-50.2 is not installed. One test named CSS styling support is known to fail with some multi-monitor configurations.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install