Re: mc port to glib2.0

[Ali Akcaagac <ali akcaagac stud fh-wilhelmshaven de>]

On Tuesday 09 April 2002 00:48, Pavel Roskin wrote:

hello,

> If it's a pain to install old libraries again, then the problem should be
> reported to glib developers and possibly to libtool developers with all
> the details.  If the problem is with binary packages, report to the
> packager first.  glib-1.2 and glib-2.0 are supposed to coexist peacefully.

ugh..... aehm..... i am not comming from another plannet or something...
maybe i badly phrased that sentence. the pain is not to 'compile' things
or install things. its because of the fact that you NEED to install the
old library, while the new one provides the same functions. so an option
in the configure.in or configure file would be of interest that either
searches for glib 1.2 and if its not found skips forward to search for
glib 2.0 and if its not found too then reports an error.

> glib 2.0 requires pkgconfig.  It's a C program, so it's another
> prerequirements to the users who want to compile MC from sources,
> especially on traditional UNIX systems without any version of pkgconfig
> and glib.  Alone the requirement for glib causes much pain for UNIX users.

thanks for underestimating me and my capabilities.. i know howto use
a compiler and my brain and i am not using linux since yesterday, its
a couple of years that i use it now.

by the way... and as respectfull i want to sound now.... you should
be a tad more diplomatic to people while answering, this wouldnt waste
your time in writing the mail and not wasting or hurting the people
that needs to read them. my previous sentence was easy enought to
understand.

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