Some useful resources for those running Fedora, and needing to build the latest tarball releases of GNOME. I decided to use GARNOME, instead of jhbuild this time, which meant I had to learn how to use GNU arch. Fedora/Fedora.us don’t have arch, so I rebuilt a source RPM and it installed fine.
Alternatively, read the GARNOME TLA (GNU Arch) HOWTO and there are links to some arch RPMs. That’s basically all you need to read to get started with garnome. Bob Kashani has further information at his site, and a useful script would be the FC2 dependency installation script.
Building it just takes some time, and when its done, create the garnome-session file, and then add a garnome.desktop (an example of the jhbuild equivalent). Happy usage! More details at the 2.7.x Development Series. Also, on the plus side, my Evolution issue has been fixed now :)