Re: HEAD not building

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 11:35, Dan Winship wrote:
> 
> It would be cool if there were some way to define what version of the
> API you want deprecation warnings against, for modules that need to be
> able to build against multiple versions of gtk/gnome/whatever. Eg,
> evolution 1.4 has always had the warning:
> 
>         e-shell.c: In function `e_shell_construct':
>         e-shell.c:1306: warning: implicit declaration of function
>         `bonobo_activation_active_server_register'
> 
> because bonobo_activation_active_server_register was deprecated in
> libbonobo 2.2. But we can't fix it because evolution needs to compile on
> GNOME 2.0 machines too. What we really want is something like
> "FOO_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_IN_2_0", etc

Yeah, that might be nice. I believe what you're supposed to do right now
is only define the DISABLE_DEPRECATED in builds from CVS, not in tarball
releases. Then developers just stick to latest libs.

> On a related note, it would be great if there was some easy way to turn
> on deprecation warnings for every library in the platform. (Evolution
> sets G_, GTK_, BONOBO_, and GNOME_DISABLE_DEPRECATED, but misses GDK_,
> BONOBO_UI_, GCONF_, and LIBGLADE_DISABLE_DEPRECATED). Maybe a
> GNOME_PLATFORM_2_4_DISABLE_DEPRECATED define that all libraries would
> obey?

For sure, that would be a good thing.

Havoc