Re: Gnome2-Canvas 1.00 on fire

["Ross McFarland" <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

Cory C. Omand said:
> Hello,
>
> I've been happily building the last stable release of Gtk2-Perl on my
> Solaris 9 SPARC system for the last two months or so without (many)
> issues.  This includes the then non-required Gnome2-Canvas 0.34.
>
> Yesterday, I updated my build system to include the latest 1.0X versions
> of all of the Gtk2-Perl packages, and the build seemed to make it most
> of the way through without (many) issues (Solaris 9 includes *ancient*
> versions of glib/gtk+, but the Perl modules still manage to compile
> without problems -- some tests have issues, but that's another email).
>
> When I did a nightly build including the updates, the Gnome2-Canvas tree
> configured correctly, finding everything it required for build.  As soon
> as the 'make' command was issued, however, the source tree burst into
> flames with an error output over 2000 lines long.  This leads me to
> believe that there is something very small and critical wrong in the way
> older versions of the libraries/headers are handled.

you win the award for best email subject line for the week.

the most likely (a possible) problem is that you need an updated
ExtUtils::Depends (and ExtUtils::PkgConfig wouldn't hurt) depends had some
non-backwards compatible changes, and older versions don't have a mechinism
for checking the version requirements so this has been a popular problem. if
this is the case most of the errors would of been typemap realted. i don't
recognize the specific error messages you attached, but that's my best guess.
rule it out and we'll move on to other possibilities.

-rm