Re: [Tracker] Using older glib in tracker

[Marcin Mielniczuk <marmistrz linux pl>]

Hi,

I was asking whetherÂit is possible to use GLib 2.20 orÂ2.22 to build Tracker 0.10+ instead of Glib 2.28+ to build

The problem is that glib upgrade is not that easy. There are some closed source packages which segfault with glib 2.29 for example.

Regards,

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Marcin

2013/1/29 Philip Van Hoof <philip codeminded be>

Hi Marcin,

I'm assuming you meant to ask whether it is possible to use GLib 2.20 or
2.22 to build Tracker 0.10 instead of Tracker 2.20/2.22 to build.

If the configure.ac script requests a specific version, then that
version is the oldest version that you can use.

Up until last year was Tracker using a lot of very recent additions and
improvements to GLib. Using a lower version than the one requested by
configure.ac will therefor not work (not without patching and working
around not having the feature for which the version in configure.ac got
bumped - which the team generally doesn't / didn't do without reason).

For most systems an upgrade of GLib should not be any problem. GLib is
maintained rigidly and upgrades of GLib are generally considered safe.

Kind regards,

Philip

On Thu, 2013-01-24 at 16:55 +0100, Marcin Mielniczuk wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Is it possible to use tracker 2.20 (or 2.22) to build tracker 0.10 or
> newer?
>
>
> Regards,
> --
> Marcin

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