On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:40:55 -0400
Christopher Michael <cpmicha...@comcast.net> wrote:

> On 07/31/2011 07:35 PM, Mike Blumenkrantz wrote:
> > On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:32:46 -0400
> > Christopher Michael<cpmicha...@comcast.net>  wrote:
> >
> >> 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 :)
> >>
> >> dh
> >>
> > Unless they're coming out with 0.3.6.1, 0.3.6.2, 0.3.6.3, etc, 0.3.6 is
> > legacy :P
> >
> Well, call it whatever you want to. I am too damn tired to argue 
> symantics. The point is, until standard distros start shipping 0.3.8 by 
> default, then we have to build against 0.3.6. End of discussion.
> 
> dh
> 
whoa calm down there angrypants, I was just kidding around. let me know if you
need/want a review of autoconf stuff :)

-- 
Mike Blumenkrantz
Zentific: Coding in binary since '10.

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