Re: Gtk2-1.021 make test failures

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 04:35 PM, Ross McFarland wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 16:07, Kevin Spencer wrote:
> > Blimey, on Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:10:10PM -0500, muppet wrote:
> > > if you have 'use Gtk2::Window;' or 'use Gtk2::TreeView;', you will be
> > > picking up the old Inline-based stuff, and attempting to mix the two
> > > incompatible versions.
> >
> > I think I'm confused.  Doesn't Gtk2::SimpleList pull in  
> > Gtk2::TreeView:
> >
> > use base 'Gtk2::TreeView';

oh, crap.  i totally forgot that was there.  the only intent there is  
to have TreeView set up as the base class of SimpleList, and the "use  
base" form is a nice, self-explanatory way to do that.


> however, according to the man page for 'base' it does a require for  
> that
> class (which seems bad/odd/weird to me) which could very well be the
> problem, if it does indeed require Gtk2::TreeView.

and this is the problem.  it will pick up TreeView.pm from the old  
inline stuff, which will pick up _config.pm and attempt to do the  
Inline booting, which will look for symbols that do not exist in the  
Gtk2.so that was already loaded by "use Gtk2".  all makes perfect sense  
now.

but i find it odd that this require does not fail at all on any of my  
systems, which do not have TreeView.pm anywhere.  i've been using that  
construct for quite some time.  8-(


> i don't know what to tell you.

well, basically, it means that we need to set up SimpleList differently  
to avoid this problem.


> > Thanks again for your patience, am I making this 500 times harder than
> > it needs to be?? :-)
>
> it's not your fault the problems are with mandrake having (for
> understandable reasons) distributed a non-trivially modified version.

whoa, hang on --- Kevin's talking about mdk 9.1, which contains the old  
Inline-based gtk2-perl stuff from 4Q02/1Q03, not mdk 9.2, which was  
released 4Q03 with modified versions of Glib and Gtk2 0.95.

by the way:  
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.2/SRPMS/perl-Gtk2-0.95- 
6mdk.src.html and  
http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/mandrake/9.2/SRPMS/perl-Glib-0.95- 
3mdk.src.html --- IIRC, the many patches add support for XSetInputFocus  
(for the installer), several deprecated functions (for porting their  
old code), a few patches we later applied, and a hack for exception  
handling (which hadn't been fixed in our cvs by the time they hit their  
code freeze).


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