[gdm-list] Re: GDM2 2.13.0.4 (unstable), the "Gerbil Wolf" release

[Brian Cameron <Brian Cameron Sun COM>]

Philip:

> Well, GDM 2.13.0.4 just got way too bleeding edge for me...
> even if Axel is planning on publishing glib2-2.8 RPM's for FC3.
>
> I don't want to destabilize my environment to the point where it's
> no longer usable.
>
> Besides, new functionality isn't going to get test driven by average
> users if it requires too many elements that aren't part of the standard
> distribution.

Why don't you just add the following lines near the top of gdm.h?

/* Make GDM build with glib 2.6, which doesn't have g_access */
#ifndef g_access
#define g_access access
#endif

That should fix the problem and make GDM build with 2.6.  You might need
to put similar lines vicious-extension/ve-misc.h to make 
vicious-extensions happy.

I would accept this sort of fix as a patch so that GDM still works
with 2.6 if you want to test it out.

Brian


> Axel Thimm wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm not subscribed, so my mail may not make it to the list.
> >
> > Just for reference these are the versions of glib2 found on Fedora
> > Core (by the vendor, not ATrpms):
> >
> > FC3:    2.4.8
> > FC4:    2.6.4
> > FC5:    2.9.1+
> >
> > Philip, probably FC5 test 1 will be a better platform for building the
> > latest gdm. Or you might want to pick 2.9.1 from rawhide and rebuild
> > for FC3, which may or may not open another can of dependencies.
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 02:52:59PM -0800, Brian Cameron wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > Philip:
> > >
> > > Thanks so much for catching this bug.  Yes, GDM now requires glib 2.8.
> > > Though you could just change all the calls to g_access to just "access"
> > > if you want to work around this problem.
> > >
> > > For putting together a patch to make priority work with gdmsetup, then
> > > this workaround would be a fine way to resolve the problem without
> > > messing about, or if upgrading to glib 2.8 is a hassle.
> > >
> > > If we really want to still support glib 2.6, then we could make
> > > configure.ac check which version of glib is available and decide which
> > > version of access or g_access to use based on configure and #ifdef's.
> > >
> > > Sorry about causing the problem.
> > >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > >
> > >   
> > > > I was trying to build gdm 2.13.0.4 on FC3, which required installing
> > > > various non-native RPM's:
> > > >
> > > > # rpm -qa | fgrep '.at' | sort
> > > > glib2-2.6.6-1_12.rhfc3.at
> > > > glib2-devel-2.6.6-1_12.rhfc3.at
> > > > [...]
> > > >     
> >
> >