Re: trying to get Gentoo to upgrade Balsa version

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

On 2011.11.23 02:13, Pawel Salek wrote:
> On 11/23/2011 03:51:54 AM, Jack wrote:
> > Gentoo Linux currently has Balsa 2.4.8 as the only available  
> > version.  I don't know what the build issues were with 2.4.9, but  
> > 2.4.10 and 2.4.11 fail to build with g-mime 2.6.  The gentoo bug to  
> > bump the version of balsa is  
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388169, and refers to the  
> > compile problem, logged as  
> > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664560.  I have not tried  
> > building this myself yet.  Gentoo has both 2.4 and 2.6 of gmime  
> > available as stable, but I suspect they will not accept a stable  
> > balsa requiring gmime 2.4 but not 2.6.  Is there a known issue with  
> > gmime, or has it simply not been brought up yet?
>
> There is a build issue: GMimeCypherContext is said to replaced with  
> GMimeCryptoContext. Replacing all occurrences of the former one with  
> the latter one should do the job - but I have not tried it myself!
I assume it would need to be wrapped in some sort of IFDEF based on  
whether you had 2.4 or 2.6.  I won't have time to even look at it until  
early next week, and I'm not even sure I'm capable of doing it, but  
I'll give it a try if nobody else gets to it first.

Thanks for the response.

Jack