On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:16:35 -0400 Christopher Michael <cpmicha...@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 07/30/2011 06:36 PM, Boris Faure wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 01:10, Christopher Michael > > <cpmicha...@comcast.net> wrote: > > […] > >> 2) It may not build on your system (tho it builds on all boxes I have > >> tried so far). > > > > It doesn't build on my boxes (gentoo and arch linux up-to-date). > I find that very strange since all of the initial development that I did > was on a gentoo box. If I had to guess, I would say you are using > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 to pull in masked packages...In which case, you are > pulling in a development version of XCB and yes it will not build > against that. > > > I've got xcb 1.7 and it introduced a split up of xcb-util. > > I've attached a patch to make ecore_xcb compatible with xcb 1.7. > > I haven't committed it since it would break your setup. > While I appreciate the work/effort that went into your patch, I cannot > put it in svn because that would break building for normal distros that > use 'current' versions of xcb, not 'bleeding edge' versions. Most normal > distros are still shipping 0.3.6 version of the XCB libraries. When they > start shipping 0.3.8 by default, then I will gladly put this in svn, but > until then, it Cannot go in because while it may fix building for your > 'bleeding edge' setup, it breaks building for everyone else :( > > dh > IMO you may want to consider doing something like I have done with eeze and libmount: provide 2 versions of the relevant files with autoconf detection to determine which one actually gets compiled. This way you can support the legacy (0.3.6) version as well as the current (0.3.8) version, and everyone wins. -- Mike Blumenkrantz Zentific: Coding in binary since '10. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't ask for help often. Plus, you'll get a chance to win $100 to spend on ThinkGeek. http://p.sf.net/sfu/slashdot-survey _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
