Hi, On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 16:43 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > Hi Philip; all the docs I saw for libgdata list just your address as a > contact; if there's a mailing list or similar you'd like me to CC please > let me know. I'm the only maintainer at the moment, so e-mailing this address is fine. (There's no libgdata mailing list.) > I maintain a makefile that allows people to build Evolution from the > latest git sources along with a significant chunk of other Gnome (and > some non-Gnome) libraries that Evo also uses. > > One of the new requirements for the latest Evo git master is libgdata. > It requires 0.6.3 or above, but the version that comes on my Ubuntu > (9.04) box is 0.4.0, so too old. So, I've added support for building > libgdata from git to my makefile... or started to. Building libgdata from git won't work, since there are a number of API and ABI breakages in master which will probably cause the e-d-s build to choke (though Evolution itself should be OK). I'd advise you to use the libgdata-0-6 branch. > The checkout of the git code works fine but the configure command fails > right away: *snip* > Looking around I found copies of introspection.m4 in the git source > trees for atk and gtk+. However, neither of those packages install that > file as part of their normal builds. > > I think if you need this you should be including it in the sources of > libgdata, or else maybe file a bug against gtk+ or similar asking them > to install it during their builds? introspection.m4 should be provided by gobject-introspection, and I believe their official advice is not to distribute it in individual packages' source trees. Regards, Philip > I worked around this locally by manually copying introspection.m4 from > gtk+ into my target $prefix/share/aclocal, where autoconf found it. > > Thanks! >
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