Re: Gtk2-1.021 make test failures

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 18:41, muppet wrote:
> On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 04:35 PM, Ross McFarland wrote:
> 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 have a feeling that it requires it in a fail safe way, if it's not
there just go about its business. 

> > i don't know what to tell you.
>
> well, basically, it means that we need to set up SimpleList differently  
> to avoid this problem.

i'll get this here in a few. really all it should need is 

push @ISA, 'Gtk2::TreeView';

but i'll make sure of that.

> > > 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).

i'd forgotten about that. i was thinking 9.1 was the 0.95 hacked. 


-rm