Re: introspection for 2.32

[Colin Walters <walters verbum org>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
>
> Hrm, at least in openSUSE, we've built the introspection support in
> clutter for a looong time (May 2009, apparently), and I've never seen
> this issue :-) We currently have clutter 1.3.12 -- is the issue
> specific to something more recent? Anyway, I'll trust you here :-)

You'd only see this when the pkg-config files are added to .girs, like this:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/atk/commit/?id=380204b95cb0a611df0233bf6275b5b511268240

That one was this week; there were earlier ones basically which made
the scanner try to run pkg-config for something not installed.

> I'm sorry if I missed it, but I think you didn't answer my main question
> :-) For distributors, is it just a matter of rebuilding the packages, or
> will they have to patches all the tarballs where they want introspection
> support?

Not all will need to be rebuilt, but some will.  I've been patching
modules to use GOBJECT_INTROSPECTION_CHECK([0.9.5])  (which thus adds
a hard 0.9.5-or-nothing dep) in order to use the new
--identifier-prefix; however *some* modules could get away with
staying on --strip-prefix since i *just* readded that.

But trying to get or any complex module like Clutter to build with
0.9.3 would be a mess without backporting.  (Clutter just this week
gained a new ClutterX11 sub-library e.g.)