Re: [Tracker] tracker-tags-plugin for Nautilus

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 21/12/09 10:09, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > > http://rishi.fedorapeople.org/0001-configure.ac-Minimum-GTK-requirement-is-2.18.0.patch
> > >
> > > This fixes the crashes reported by Philip on IRC.
> >
> > Hmm, wasn't this crash the background crash that I just fixed?
> >
> > How does this upgrade fix things?
>
> I have noticed that the if there are unresolved symbols left in the
> extension's .so the build does not spot it.

Which symbols?

> It just causes Nautilus to
> crash at runtime. eg., I had at one point of time misspelt
> gtk_widget_show_all as gtk_show_all, and more recently my Fedora 11
> system has a slightly older Gtk+ which does not have
> gtk_widget_set_can_default. In both these cases the build did not
> fail, but Nautilus blows up.

Hmm, this sounds like your build/system has issues.

Either way, I have bumped the version requirement of Glib up from 2.16 
to 2.20 and removed all the duplicate functions we had in our repository 
while we were waiting for the upgrade.

> I am wondering if the Makefile.am needs a fix too or not, but I had
> just copied it from another extension.

I think I upgraded that too, it should be fine.

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Regards,
Martyn