On 07/31/2011 07:29 PM, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote: > 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. > Yea, that's a thought...except that 0.3.6 is not legacy, it's the 'current' version :) 0.3.8 is a 'development' version :)
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