Re: [Tracker] Building tracker and tracker apps from trunk

[Martyn Russell <martyn imendio com>]

On 11/01/09 15:36, Ivan Frade wrote:
> Hi!

Hi,

>     1/ I also want to get the gui tools, but I either have missing
>     dependencies or have used the wrong flags with autogen.sh (either is
>     entirely possible - I'm not terribly familiar with the linux build
>     tools).
>
>     I've tried variants on:
>     ./autogen.sh --enable-deskbar-applet --enable-tracker-search-tool
>     --enable-tracker-preferences --enable-tracker-applet
>     --enable-libtracker-gtk --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
>
>     but the build config summary reports only the deskbar-applet being
>     enabled (see below).
>
>
> Have you installed the development packages of "glib-2.0", "gtk+-2.0",
> "dbus-1", "libgnome-2.0","libgnomeui-2.0" and "dbus-glib"?
>
> When some of those packages are missing, those components are disabled
> and the compilation doesn't fail. I think we should show an error if the
> option --enable-X is used (the user explicitly enable that option) and
> the required libraries are not present.

Yea, that's exactly how it _should_ work. Maybe it is broken.

>     2/ I'm also have trouble with the dbus interface. I've tried to call
>     the Text method of org.freedesktop.Tracker.Search interface but it
>     returns with "can't find method in interface with args xxx" type
>     error. (On the other hand I can call GetVersion method from
>     org.freedesktop.Tracker interface). This was code that worked for
>     the version of tracker that shipped with hardy (0.6.6), but doesn't
>     work on trunk...
>
>
> There is a small change in the DBus API. In 0.6.6, there were one
> Tracker object with 5 interfaces. Now we have 5 objects with one
> interface (per object). So, instead of connect to
>
> Object: org.freedesktop.Tracker
> Interface: org.freedesktop.Tracker.Search
>
> You should use:
> Object: org.freedesktop.Tracker.Search
> Interface: org.freedesktop.Tracker.Search
>
> The "Version" method is working because that interface keep the same
> name and object.
>
> To explore the DBus API of tracker, try d-feet
> (https://fedorahosted.org/d-feet/). It helps a lot to check
> objects/interfaces/methods/signatures.

This is good advise! :)
We use d-feet to test our interfaces too, so I can fully recommend it too.

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Regards,
Martyn