Re: [Gtk2hs-users] Build problem + question about comboBoxAppendText

[José P. M. <jp...@cs...>]

Hello Axel,

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:53, Axel Simon <Axe...@en...> wrote:

> Hi Pedro,
>
> On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 10:37 +0100, José Pedro Magalhães wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I cannot currently build gtk2Hs from the sources in the repository. I
> > get a:
> >
> > gio/System/GIO/AsyncResult.chs:37:0:
> >     Failed to load interface for `System.GIO.Base':
> >       Use -v to see a list of the files searched for.
> > make[1]: *** [gio/System/GIO/AsyncResult.o] Error 1
>
> Did you just pulled the recent changes? I think there has been a change
> that breaks dependency calculation. You could try a 'make distclean' and
> build again to be sure.


I just tried it now again, darcs pull -a && autoreconf && ./configure &&
make, same problem...


>
>
> > Since I don't need gio I work around this by disabling gio in the
> > configure step, but I thought I'd mention. This happens in Linux.
> >
> > Additionally, I'm wondering what happened to the comboBoxAppendText
> > function. It was there in the 0.9.13 version, but I can't find it in
> > the current sources nor any deprecation.
>
> This ad-hoc interface for using a ComboBox with Strings has disappeared
> and is now replaced by comboBoxNewText which is incompatible with the
> version of 0.9.13. Providing a backwards compatible implementation is a
> bit difficult as it would need quite a lot of casting which makes it
> rather unsafe.
>
> It is quite unfortunate that ComboBox does not live in TreeList/ and
> ModelView/ and has thus been changed in a breaking way while deprecating
> TreeList.
>
> I'm afraid that the best way to build with either Gtk2Hs version will be
> to conditionally compile code.


Ok, thanks for the information.


Cheers,
Pedro


>
>
> Cheers,
> Axel.
>
>
>