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



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.



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