Unable to compile on current rawhide

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 11:17:46AM -0600, Michael D. Wise wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 11:53 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 10:26:24AM -0600, Michael D. Wise wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 10:11 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 07:32:42AM -0600, Michael D. Wise wrote:
> > > > > I can't compile a current svn checkout on the current rawhide.  I get
> > > > > the following error:
> > > > > 
> > > > >  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../.. -I../../.. -I../../..
> > > > > -I. -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include
> > > > > -Wno-uninitialized -Wall -Wunused -Wdeclaration-after-statement
> > > > > -Wno-pointer-sign -MT guid.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/guid.Tpo -c guid.c -fPIC
> > > > > -DPIC -o .libs/guid.o
> > > > > guid.c:60: error: expected '=', ',', ';', 'asm' or '__attribute__'
> > > > > before '*' token
> > > > > guid.c: In function 'guid_memchunk_init':
> >
> > Ok, hypothesis #2: Whatever version of glib2-devel you have finally
> > removed deprecated GMemChunk from the public api.  Let me go see if
> > there's some private header we can include until we get around to
> > removing GMemChunk altogether.
> > 
> > -chris
> > 
> The glib2-devel version is glib2-devel-2.9.1-1.
> 
> Mind you I don't really know anything about programming.  I am learning
> though every time I compile gnucash.  I was reading the API
> documentation on gtk.org.  It does talk about how memory chunks have
> been deprecated in 2.10.  Its replacement is the slice allocator.

Yeah, but the slice allocator is new in 2.10, so we're not going to be
using it any time soon.  I think the RightWay to solve this is to make
the disabling of deprecated functions a configure flag.  Then,
developers can enable it to test what our minimum library requirements
are.  But we can't just disable deprecated functions by default.
That's silly.

-chris