Re: missing recent files

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Le lundi 02 novembre 2009 à 18:22 +0800, bill lam a écrit :
> On Mon, 02 Nov 2009, Jean Bréfort wrote:
> > Le lundi 02 novembre 2009 à 17:48 +0800, bill lam a écrit :
> > > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009, bill lam wrote:
> > > > > - Please check in gnumeric-config.h that you do have the following line:
> > > > > #define HAVE_GTK_RECENT_MANAGER_GET_DEFAULT 1
> > > >
> > > > It is commented.  I re-run ./configure and noticed a line
> > > >
> > > > checking for gtk_recent_manager_get_default... no
> > > >
> > > > I use gtk 2.12.12 from lenny that has this function inside its include
> > > > header file but ./configure tested it "no".
> > >
> > > I manual add that #define after ./configure , and then rebuilt.  Now
> > > the recent files appeared just above "full history" ;-)
> > >
> > > Still I don't know why ./configure failed to detect.
> >
> > May be config.log says why the test failed.
>
> I attached the portion for the failure for your reference.

Looks like a glib-2.0 instalation issue, may be you have two versions
installed?

/usr/bin/../lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined reference to `g_poll'
/usr/bin/../lib/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined reference to `g_set_error_literal'

> > >   I also noticed
> > > that the recent file list is updated immediately instead of after
> > > closing the current documents.  This is an unexpected feature.
> >
> > Why unexpected?
>
> I expect "recent" to be files that edited in the past, and does not
> include the file that currently open.

Not sure everybody agrees with that.