RE: Building from SVN

["Young, Robert" <Robert Young dsto defence gov au>]

> Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 13.01.2009 04:34, Young, Robert wrote:
> > I've been trying to build the latest dia from SVN on Open Suse 10.1 
> > The INSTALL file doesn't exactly reflect the current 
> requirements, and 
> > I've found the following problems along the way:
> >
> > Intltool >= 0.35 is required
> see configure.in ;)
>
> > Objects/standard/image.c needed a #include <time.h> to compile.
> Is dragged in by GLib if that is new enough (the lowest 
> version I'm testing is Glib-2.10.3 on Ubuntu Dapper (6.06).
>
> > gtkwrapbox (and friends) require g_slice_* functions which don't 
> > appear in glib until version 2.10. Unfortunately this is 
> more difficult to fix.
> > I notice that both this, and the change from gtk_object_ref/sink to 
> > g_object_ref_sink are part of the GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED 
> work. I have 
> > changed the code so that it will compile and run. Is there an 
> > imperative to move to Glib 2.10?
>
> How hard would it be for you to update to Glib-2.10 (no need 
> to do an update of gtk+-2.0 I think)?
> That cobination is what was available for e.g. "Nokia 770 
> OS2006" and looks like a reasonable minimal requirement.

I'm not knowledgeable about when the different Glibs came out, but I'd
suggest that it would be good if we can keep the barrier to entry low,
at least until there's a compelling reason to move to a more recent Glib
version. I realise that the conditional code is messy, and makes for
reduced mantainability. The proposed changes are minimal at the moment,
but too many more and I'd not have proposed sticking with Glib 2.8.

> > Should I submit a patch for the these changes?
> Comments on you patches in bugzilla.

Patches to bugs #567558 and #567559 improved.

Thanks,
Rob.

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