Unable to compile on current rawhide

David Hampton hampton-gnucash at rainbolthampton.net
Fri Dec 23 15:21:00 EST 2005


On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 15:00 -0500, Chris Shoemaker wrote:

> The problem is the "currently" deprecated functions are determined by
> the user's installed library.  This symbol just isn't as useful as it
> could be.  Wouldn't it be nice if there were G_DISABLE_DEPRECATED_2_6
> and such?  *sigh*

Agreed.  I've compiled against glib-2.8 and its clean.  Apparently
glib-2.9 wasn't part of gnome-2.14 when I installed and tested it.  I'm
updating my copy in /opt now and will test again.

> > and I specifically added that line to prevent anyone from adding
> > them back.
> 
> Maybe we could unconditionally disable deprecated functions for
> certain older library versions.  We just can't assume that newer
> versions won't deprecate stuff we want really use and not error on.

Agreed.  I'm looking into that now.

David




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