Re: [rox-devel] Re: GTK binary compatibility

[Ken H. <ke...@ha...>]

Stephen Watson wrote:
> "Thomas Leonard" <ta...@gm...> wrote:
>
>   
>> With the recent libglitz problems, I've been thinking about how to
>> help ensure binary compatibility. I think I've got a simple solution
>> now:
>>
>> http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/node/289
>>
>> I was able to compile a binary for ROX-Filer on my GTK 2.8.16 system
>> that still worked on a GTK 2.4.14 system. I don't know if it will
>> allow us to get rid of the ROX-CLib dependency on libglitz (because my
>> version of GTK doesn't seem to use it) but it should do.
>>     
>
> The chain (as near as I've been able to trace it) is Gtk+ (2.8.3) requires
> Cairo (1.0.0) requires libglitz.  Whether this is a Cairo version thing, or
> dependant on the packager's system/build options I don't know
Right.  Doesn't this mean that any build of (e.g.) Filer that directly 
depends on libglitz (or cairo either for that matter) is broken - not in 
the Filer build, but in the system that built it?  Meaning, if the Filer 
does not directly call any cairo or glitz functions, then why is there a 
dependency?

On my Gentoo system I have gtk+-2.8.12 and cairo, but no glitz.  
pkg-config --libs on gtk+-2.0 includes -lcairo.
Is this a distro-dependent pkg-config issue?


That said, it seems that Thomas has created an interesting solution.