Re: [Tracker] ANNOUNCE: tracker 0.12.0 released (stable)

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 13/09/11 08:50, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> > OK, I managed to track this down, quite nasty. So, the problem was
> > that (for me at least), I have GTK+ 2.x and 3.x installed on the
> > machine. Version 3.x is required by Tracker and we explicitly
> > require it for the nautilus plugin. However, the
> > libnautilus-extension pkg-config information already has the GTK+
> > version we need to link against mentioned and it was 2.x. So the
> > issue was that Nautilus uses 2.x, the plugin was using 3.x and that
> > caused crashes and all sorts here.
> >
> > So the fix was (now in master):
> >
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/tracker/commit/?id=98a8948c8ef2f46568f49091d42a17c3d944fe4f
> >
> >
> >
> > The downside here is that you can't use a version of GTK+ any newer
> > than the one nautilus is built with for that extension. That's ok
> > for now.
> >
> > If this doesn't fix it, let me know.
>
> Thanks. I would like to try it out, but I don't seem to be able to
> compile it, due to dependencies: I cloned the git repo, and could not
> run autogen.sh due to an error: "valac>= 0.13.4 installed to build,
> you have 0.12.0"

This fix is for a GObject Introspection issue, if you're not using that 
you can set it back to 0.12.0 for now. Alternatively, updating your Vala 
version is quite painless.

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.