On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Chris Michael <devilho...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 09/29/2014 09:17 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:06:30 -0400 Chris Michael <devilho...@comcast.net>
>> said:
>>> On 09/29/2014 07:47 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 29 Sep 2014 09:52:23 +0200 Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr>
>>>> said:
>>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 12:46 AM, Carsten Haitzler
>>>>> <ras...@rasterman.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:44:32 +0200 Cedric BAIL <cedric.b...@free.fr>
>>>>>> said:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Lucas De Marchi
>>>>>>> <lucas.de.mar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Em 28/09/2014 08:46, "Graham Gower" <graham.go...@gmail.com>
>>>>>>>> escreveu:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I've attempted to build using the easy_efl.sh script and received
>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>> build error referenced in the subject (full build log follows
>>>>>>>>> message).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Is there a particular version of udev that is required now, but
>>>>>>>>> hasn't
>>>>>>>>> been put in the autoconf goo? I have udev 182 on a linux distro
>>>>>>>>> without systemd.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> From
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/libudev/libudev.sym?id=946f1825751919a176cd0039002a514de0c9c70f
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> libudev 199
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Question as always how many distribution ship this library and how
>>>>>>> many don't. Should we make 199 mandatory or should we just disable
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> code that require 199 (I guess it is related to wayland).
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> since systemd and udev merged... a lot seem to have stopped updating
>>>>>> udev
>>>>>> at all and may b e on a multi-year-old udev (eg 2011). so our choices
>>>>>> are
>>>>>> to force an upgrade or work on these distros, or we need a way to
>>>>>> emulate
>>>>>> this udev call inside eeze iof udev is older. that means someone has
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> do the emulation code work there.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Do we really need to ? We could just disable Wayland support if udev
>>>>> is to old, as I think that is the only think that rely on it. The
>>>>> question is more what about other system than Linux.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> that makes for a poor eeze api that may or may not work based on a
>>>> hidden
>>>> udev version at compile time of eeze.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, perhaps for the moment we can detect the udev version and just
>>> #ifdef the internal eeze code to skip that function call. Fixes the
>>> build problem while Not breaking code for people that have a sane udev
>>> version. Thoughts ??
>>
>>
>> but downside is we have an eeze fn that now is broken for some and not
>> others... and then when some try wayland things mysteriously fail.. we'll
>> hit
>> this sooner or later in one form or another. best get it sorted now while
>> fresh.
>>
>
> Ok. Makes sense :)
>
> So...what is the general "agreed" plan for sorting this ?? I've seen a
> couple of thoughts on this thread, but no clear plan/path. I don't mind
> doing the legwork if we all can agree on a path....

I am voting to put a big eina log warning in that #if for people who
have an old version and make sure that when Wayland fail to setup that
warning is correctly displayed. After that it is not our duty anymore.
-- 
Cedric BAIL

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