Hi all, The Balsa package has a required dependency of GMime (http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/). I'm going to add it to the book, to keep up the trend of adding required dependencies of existing BLFS packages.
Just wanted to throw out some info, and see if there is any feedback or discussion required. It turns out that the version of GMime that Balsa requires is a 'development' version. Apparently work has been discontinued in the 'stable' series of GMime, so it sort of poses a dilemma about using 'development' versions of packages in BLFS. Balsa wants GMime version >= 2.1.9, yet the 2.1.x versions are not the 'stable' versions. The 2.0.x versions are the ones labeled as 'stable'. However, I'm not sure there is a real problem as here is what the maintainers have to say about the versions: "At this time, even though 2.1.x has not made the final 2.2.0 release, it is considered more stable and more robust than the 2.0.x series." You can see the above message and the 'stable' and 'development' versions of GMime at: http://spruce.sourceforge.net/gmime/sources/ -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 13:40:00 up 37 days, 23:04, 3 users, load average: 0.11, 0.08, 0.23 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
