Hello Neil, Please don't get me wrong. I had no doubt that your choice of libbamf was technically guided. My modifications are only meant as a temporary solution until the dependencies propagate to Debian unstable.
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Neil Jagdish Patel <neil.pa...@canonical.com> wrote: > Hi Pascal, > > On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 14:54 +0000, Pascal Giard wrote: >> Hi guys/list, >> as mentioned on IRC yesterday evening, building libbamf in Debian >> unstable is currently a lot of pain because of its dependencies. > > Could I ask which dependencies are causing the most trouble? Sure thing. (For the sake of simplicity, every time I say Debian, unstable is implicit unless stated otherwise). There are two cases: bamf 0.2.58 and 0.2.78. 0.2.58: Depends on gir1.0-wnck-1.0 which isn't in Debian; building it myself was not an issue. Once installed, attempting to build bamf results in the following error... gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c:36: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token I assume that GDesktopAppInfoLaunchHandlerIface is not defined and thus that 0.2.58 depends on a modified GIO. I haven't tried to patch/build GIO (yet). 0.2.78: Depends on gir1.2 which is in Debian experimental. However, I can't install gir1.2 without removing gnome and cie. Ouch. > The problem is that you'll miss out on all the advanced matching BAMF > does, so if we can figure out how to get it to build, that would be > good :) Sounds good. > That, as well as applications that are run via scripts and anything that > is launched in a non-standard way. BAMF has the cleanest solution to > handling all these cases as well as the primary case that uses GIO. Thanks for the details. I was convinced there was a reason. On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Jason Smith <jason.sm...@canonical.com> wrote: > I think the dependency issue referred to here is the GIO patch. It is > worth noting that BAMF functions fine without the GIO module (however > with degraded accuracy) and in the very short term future will no longer > require it. I'd rather have full accuracy if possible w/o too much trouble. This may sound ignorant, but for GIO, can you point me to the relevant patch/package please? Thanks to both of you Neil and Jason, I'm sure I'll manage to work something out. -Pascal -- Homepage (http://organact.mine.nu) Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org) COMunité/LACIME: École de technologie supérieure (http://www.comunite.ca) Integrated Microsystems Laboratory: McGill (http://www.iml.ece.mcgill.ca) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev Post to : multi-touch-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~multi-touch-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
