Re: can't build bonobo HEAD with any cvs ORBit

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Darin Adler <darin eazel com> writes:

> The configure.in for Bonobo HEAD requires ORBit 0.5.6. The configure.in for
> ORBit on the orbit-stable-0-5 branch says that it's version 0.5.1 (as does
> HEAD for that matter). This means that people like the Nautilus developers
> can't compile Bonobo HEAD.
> 
> So we need to either:
> 
>     1) bump the ORBit version number in the orbit-stable-0-5 branch (I would
> do it myself, but I really need Elliot's OK)
>     2) change the ORBit version required on the configure.in back to 0.5.1
> until ORBit's version number is bumped (Michael will probably want to kill
> me for even suggesting this)
>     3) back off to an older Bonobo (we've had to do it before, but it's a
> problem for us since we regularly submit Bonobo patches that are needed to
> continue Nautilus development)

4) hack orbit-config to spool 0.5.6

That's trivial to do, all you need to do is change that `echo 0.5.5' into
a `echo 0.5.6'.

(btw. this wasn't my idea, so don't blame me - I read this in the announcement).

> Can someone help? Work on Nautilus is slowing to a standstill as people
> update Bonobo (as they do routinely as part of daily builds) and discover
> they can't build.
> 
> If I don't hear from anyone soon, I will probably make a Bonobo tag for use
> in approach (3) above.
> 
> (Given the remarks in bonobo/configure.in -- "It appears that as yet Elliot
> has not released this version of ORBit." -- perhaps I have just run into the
> middle of a disagreement between Elliot and Michael about ORBit releases?)
> 
>     -- Darin
> 
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