Re: New gnome-print 0.8 has been released

[Michael Hall <mhall riverside org>]

On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 11:45:12PM +0000, Elliot Lee wrote:

  Just grabbed the latest gnome-xml and gnome-print from CVS and it
compiled fine.

> 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...

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