Re: ANNOUNCE: balsa-2.5.1 released

[Pawel Salek <pawsa0 gmail com>]

On 05/01/2013 02:38:54 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> On 04/28/2013 08:43:34 AM Sun, Pawel Salek wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > balsa-2.5.1 has been released with a next batch of goodies:
> ...
> > - ported to GNetworkMonitor
>
> That port was not quite seamless :(
>
> Short version: if you have glib version 2.32 or better, and configure  
> --with-nm (the default), and do not have the NetworkManager-glib  
> devel package installed, configure will fail.
>
> Workaround: configure --with-nm=no.
>
> Fix: has been pushed to the gtk3 branch.
>
> Long version: glib version 2.32 introduced GNetworkMonitor, which can  
> be used in place of NetworkManager to, well, monitor the network  
> status.  Balsa's code has been modified to detect that version of  
> glib at compile time, and use GNetworkMonitor instead of  
> NetworkManager, eliminating the need to link against the additional  
> library.  The configure script was similarly modified to detect an  
> adequate version of glib at configure time, and notify the user that  
> NetworkManager, while requested, was not used.  But configure then  
> wrongly checks that the -dev package is installed, when of course it  
> should just move on.
>
> With apologies for any inconvenience,

Well, if it is just a configure-time inconvenience, I am not worried. I  
would be more concerned if balsa compiled successfully without the  
correct code enabled properly...

/Pawel