Re: New gnome-print 0.8 has been released

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 23 Sep 1999 17:38:10 -0400, Michael Hall <mhall@riverside.org> wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 03:28:51PM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
>
>>    A new release of Gnome Print has been cooked for your printing
>> pleasure.  As usual, this version is available from the GNOME ftp site
>> at: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-print
>
>  Just grabbed it (CVS) to see if the problem I was having last night was
>fixed but its still there and it fails to compile. Heres a copy of the
>message James sent me back in response last night:
>
>>It looks like one of the structure members in the xmlParserCtxt structure
>>of libxml is called errno.  Your C library defines this as a macro (for
>>threading purposes), which is causing the error while parsing the header.
>>
>>The two possible fixes are (1) change the name of the structure member in
>>libxml or (2) include the libxml headers before errno.h in gnome-print.
>>It is worth fixing this because quite a lot of people have C libraries
>>that define errno as a macro.

For now, the "right" fix is to either get gnome-xml from CVS, or downgrade to libxml
1.4.0...

-- Elliot
The first thing a programmer needs to admit is that any program is by far
more complex than his own mind. Thats why he partitions it into neat
pieces and avoids complexity.