Status report:

I haven't had any progress since yesterday but I will write a report here as detailed as possible so that I can then reach out for help to all possible channels and refer to this post.

Packages built and configured successfully

atk-1.29.2
clutter 0.8 from cordia github (--with-flavor=eglx -with-gles=1.1)
glib from cordia github (latest)
gnome-menus-svn2.23.3-2maemo+0m5 from maemo.org
gnome-mime-data-2.18.0 from gnome.org
gnome-vfs-2.24.4 from meego.com
gtk latest from cordia github
libhildon from cssu gitorious (cordia package was asking for gtk3)
libhildondesktop from cssu gitorious (cordia package was asking for gtk3)
libmatchbox2 from cordia github
pango1.0_1.24.2-0maemo4+0m5 from maemo.org (harmattan pango not compatible)

Now I am stuck to compiling hildon-desktop

First I cannot force it to use fremantle pango instead of harmattan pango and if I just do ./configure i get this error

After trying with
I got the glMultMatrix error only, but I cannot reproduce this behaviour

I tried recompiling clutter with and I got undefined reference errors for about every clutter function (see attachment)

If I do a simple configure I get back to the previous two errors.

Studying the code a little has revealed that glMultMatrix is a vanilla OpenGL function and not an OpenGL ES one so I assume I should somehow tell hildon-desktop to build with OpenGL ES. I cannot find relevant configure flags like those in clutter.

I suppose the many errors I get while building with HD_LIBS set is because the linker cannot find other libs except the one I specify (pangocairo). How can I force use of a specific library and let the system use other libraries freely?