Re: autoconfiscation process

[Robert Isenberg <robert isenberg cs man ac uk>]

Hi Owen,

Just to put things in context:  I am trying to do a native port of 
GTK+2 to Mac OS X using Cocoa for my 3rd year University project.  I 
had some comments about your reply to my posting...

On Sunday, February 23, 2003, at 11:46  pm, Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 13:46, Robert Isenberg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I'm beginning work on a port of GTK+2 to Mac OS X.  I'm working with
> > version 2.0.6
>
> Time for my version rant here... 2.0.6 is dead, buried and gone.
> Why waste time porting it?

Sorry Owen, but 2.0.6 was the latest version of GTK+2 that has been 
ported to Mac OS X using the X11 port.  I don't really know much about 
the different versions of GTK+ and just assumed that this latest one 
available would be the most suitable.  It seems that recently version 
2.0.9 has become available.

I don't really have much choice.  Which version do you suggest I use?  
The main part I am concerned with is GDK.  Has this really changed that 
much since 2.0.6?  I was assuming, maybe incorrectly, that GDK would 
have remained reasonably similar, and that if I managed to get 
something working for 2.0.6 that it wouldn't be that difficult to get 
it to work for a later version.

I'd really appreciate your advice on this.

> > .  I need to change the files in the gdk/x11 directory to
> > become Objective-C files (.m).  As a result, I need to modify the
> > configure.in and makefile.am files then autoconfiscate the code again.
> > I have automake v1.6.3, autoconf v2.54.  I have been calling:
>
> As Sven says, GTK+ currently require automake-1.4.

Thanks.