Re: [Tracker] managed to build 0.12.3..! now tracker-needle..?

[Michael Biebl <mbiebl gmail com>]

2011/9/27 Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>:
> On 27/09/11 07:37, Adrien Bustany wrote:
> > On 27.09.2011 09:25, Björn Johansson wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > and thanks for all the help. I finally managed to build the 0.12.3 and
> > > it seems to be indexing my file system.
> > >
> > > In the end I simply
> > > ./configure
> > > make
> > > sudo make install
> > >
> > > I am not quite sure why it worked now...
> > >
> > > Now I would like to also build tracker-needle:
> > >
> > > ./configure --enable-tracker-needle
> > >
> > > and I get
> > >
> > > configure: error: Couldnt find tracker-needle dependencies
> > > (glib-2.0 >= 2.28.0
> > >                         gio-unix-2.0 >=
> > > 2.28.0
> > >                         gthread-2.0 >=
> > > 2.28.0
> > >                         gmodule-2.0 >=
> > > 2.28.0
> > >                         gtk+-3.0 >=
> > > 3.0.0).
> > >
> > > I do have the libglib2.0-dev  version 2.28.6-0ubuntu1 installed
> > > which I thought should provide these.
> > >
> > > thanks for any suggestions...
> > >
> > > /bjorn
> >
> > Hi Björn
> >
> > I guess you are missing gtk3, not sure if there are packages for your
> > version of Ubuntu, maybe a PPA somewhere?
>
> We should probably remove GLib 2.x from the requirements above. GTK+ 3.x
> pulls in most of those for us.

Please be explicit about those dependencies

If tracker uses glib, it should depend on glib (and it's mimimum
required version).
Getting glib pulled as a side effect of using gtk is not good.

Cheers,
Michael


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