Re: [IMP] Latest sources fail to build

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 04:39, James Henstridge wrote:
> Satyajit wrote:
> 
> >James Henstridge wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Are you sure you are using the gnome-2-0 branch of gnome-vfs?
> >>
> >>James.
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Yeah I checked it out from the  cvs.  Are you not facing the
> >problem . May be i have to check again :)
> >  
> >
> According to the logs, revision 1.67 of gnome-vfs-types.h deletes it. 
>  However, the gnome-2-0 and gnome-2-0-0 branches branch off from 
> revision 1.66, so this should not affect you if you have a correct check 
> out of the branch (which is why I don't see the problem).  You can tell 
> what branch you are on with the command "cvs status gnome-vfs-types.h".
> 
> This does however  bring up a binary compatibility issue.  If the HEAD 
> branch is supposed to be compatible, surely removing a header file is 
> going to cause source compatibility issues.  I suppose this wouldn't be 
> as much of a problem if gnome-vfs had a single header you could include 
> that included all the other needed headers :)

This doesn't break binary compatibility. There were no data structures,
functions, etc, in that header.

(FWIW, there is a "gnome-vfs.h" header file that should include all
other headers)

-Seth