2008/3/30, Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on  Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:40:39
> -0700:
>
>
> > In this particular case I agree with your idea to include glib.h --
> > that's what that header file is for and it would have prevented this
> > particular compile error.
>
>
> The problem there, as mentioned elsewhere (maybe on the bug not the
> thread?) is that glib 2.12 and below is different again, and doesn't
> include glib.h.
>
> So including gmessages.h works up thru 2.14 but not for 2.16, including
> glib.h works for 2.14 and 2.16 but not 2.12 and previous, and including
> gtestutils.h works for 2.16.  None of the above work for the entire range
> from 2.4, the apparent previous minimum required (according to Gentoo's
> dependencies anyway, I don't know of anyone actually using that far
> back), thru 2.16 and potentially forward.


well this wouldn't be difficult to fix in gentoo since the ebuild could see
what version is installed and apply a patch for fixing the includes based on
the installed version of glib. the other distros might need another way to
fix this up, though.


-- 
dott. ing. beso
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