Re: [gnome-db] libgda glib 2.8 issues.

[Bas Driessen <bas driessen xobas com>]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 09:18 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> 2006/1/24, Bas Driessen <bas driessen xobas com>:
> >  Hello All,
> >
> >  Just downloaded the latest CVS libgda sources and while attempting to
> > compile I noticed 2 issues:
> >
> >  -1 undefined reference to `g_access'
> >  -2 undefined reference to `g_mkdir_with_parents'
> >
> >  Apparently 'g_access' and 'g_mkdir_with_parents' are only available in glib
> > 2.8, while the system I am working on (FC4) has glib 2.6.6 installed. If we
> > really want to use these 2 new calls, configure.in has to be modified to
> > check for glib version >= 2.8 rather than 2.0.0 as it is doing now.
> >
> >  On the other hand, these new calls are only made in 3 files
> > (gda-diagnose.c, gda-test-models.c and gda-test-sql.c) in the /testing
> > directory. do we really want to up the glib requirement just for these 3
> > testing files? An easy workaround for glib 2.6 is to replace g_access with
> > access and g_mkdir_with_parents with g_mkdir. Not sure if that is compatible
> > with 2.8, but we could use #ifdef settings based on the glib version in case
> > it is not.
> >
> >  Personally I would like to keep libgda compatible with glib 2.6.
> >
>
> I agree with you. Can you provide a patch?

Thanks for your response Vivian. I will get that organized tomorrow (my time).

Regards,
Bas.