Re: Removing gamin dependency?

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:53:16PM +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le jeudi 21 août 2008, à 16:44 +0200, Olav Vitters a écrit :
> > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 03:18:18PM +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
> > > I'd really like a new gamin release on ftp.gnome.org to include the fix
> > > for bug 534942. Can I make a new gamin release? 
> > > 
> > > Things I like to do as well:
> > > make use of ftp.gnome.org (much better bandwidth)
> > > 
> > > Do you agree? I'd like to make a new release today so it is ready for
> > > 2.24 beta1. Or perhaps you want to make a release?
> > 
> > gamin doesn't build for me. Got no release after pinging.
> > 
> > However, after discussion with Matthias, I propose to remove this from
> > the build as gnome-vfs can use inotify instead (hope that works on other
> > platforms).
> 
> It builds fine here, FWIW.

See bug 534942, fails depending on your glibc version. It is fixed in
SVN, but not in any tarball.

> > Agree? Should I ask d-d-l?
> 
> I thought inotify is Linux-specific? We have a backend for OpenSolaris
> in gio (using fen, don't know what it is). But what about BSD? Probably
> worth asking on d-d-l.

Ok. I'll wait a while for other reactions.

-- 
Regards,
Olav