On 07/31/2011 07:29 PM, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:16:35 -0400
> Christopher Michael<cpmicha...@comcast.net>  wrote:
>
>> On 07/30/2011 06:36 PM, Boris Faure wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:10, Christopher Michael
>>> <cpmicha...@comcast.net>   wrote:
>>> […]
>>>> 2) It may not build on your system (tho it builds on all boxes I have
>>>> tried so far).
>>>
>>> It doesn't build on my boxes (gentoo and arch linux up-to-date).
>> I find that very strange since all of the initial development that I did
>> was on a gentoo box. If I had to guess, I would say you are using
>> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 to pull in masked packages...In which case, you are
>> pulling in a development version of XCB and yes it will not build
>> against that.
>>
>>> I've got xcb 1.7 and it introduced a split up of xcb-util.
>>> I've attached a patch to make ecore_xcb compatible with xcb 1.7.
>>> I haven't committed it since it would break your setup.
>> While I appreciate the work/effort that went into your patch, I cannot
>> put it in svn because that would break building for normal distros that
>> use 'current' versions of xcb, not 'bleeding edge' versions. Most normal
>> distros are still shipping 0.3.6 version of the XCB libraries. When they
>> start shipping 0.3.8 by default, then I will gladly put this in svn, but
>> until then, it Cannot go in because while it may fix building for your
>> 'bleeding edge' setup, it breaks building for everyone else :(
>>
>> dh
>>
> IMO you may want to consider doing something like I have done with eeze and
> libmount: provide 2 versions of the relevant files with autoconf detection to
> determine which one actually gets compiled. This way you can support the 
> legacy
> (0.3.6) version as well as the current (0.3.8) version, and everyone wins.
>
Yea, that's a thought...except that 0.3.6 is not legacy, it's the 
'current' version :) 0.3.8 is a 'development' version :)

dh


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