Re: trying to get Gentoo to upgrade Balsa version

[Pawel Salek <pawsa0 gmail com>]

On 11/23/2011 03:51:54 AM, Jack wrote:
> Gentoo Linux currently has Balsa 2.4.8 as the only available  
> version.  I don't know what the build issues were with 2.4.9, but  
> 2.4.10 and 2.4.11 fail to build with g-mime 2.6.  The gentoo bug to  
> bump the version of balsa is  
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388169, and refers to the  
> compile problem, logged as  
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664560.  I have not tried  
> building this myself yet.  Gentoo has both 2.4 and 2.6 of gmime  
> available as stable, but I suspect they will not accept a stable  
> balsa requiring gmime 2.4 but not 2.6.  Is there a known issue with  
> gmime, or has it simply not been brought up yet?

There is a build issue: GMimeCypherContext is said to replaced with  
GMimeCryptoContext. Replacing all occurrences of the former one with  
the latter one should do the job - but I have not tried it myself!

Pawel