Hello Egmont, First of all - thanks for your efforts in MC development.
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015 15:56:40 +0200 Egmont Koblinger <egm...@gmail.com> wrote: > This was introduced by a recent patch created by me that fixes a > segfault (a critical bug in 4.8.14). libc6's version is irrelevant, > glib matters here. I think so far mc required a glib that's not older > than about 7 years if I remember correctly. This change makes it > require glib-2.26 which is 5 years old. > > I'm personally absolutely okay with this requirement and wouldn't want > to replace with a more complex, more hackish solution to support old > systems. It's reasonable to expect that you can't update apps after a > while wihtout updating the core system, and 5 years is a very long > time in computer science. > > The configure checks should, of course, be updated to explicitly fail > on glib version checking. I forgot to do this, and I'm asking > mainstream developers to do it for me. Glib version check should be introduced in this case. My opinion - if configure completes without error, then compilation should go without error too. Otherwise it is a FTBFS bug. -- WBR, Andrey Tataranovich _______________________________________________ mc-devel mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel
