Re: [wxhaskell-devel] Building wxcore on Ubuntu 10.04

[Dave T. <duk...@gm...>]

On 24 July 2011 22:57, Eric Y. Kow <eri...@gm...> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 21:26:12 +0100, Dave Tapley wrote:
> > Well I have a response¹ from someone in the wx-dev group saying that the
> > missing GTK constructor "is
> > available in 2.9.2 but chances of this being backported to 2.8 are slim".
> >
> > I don't know how people would feel about modifying wxcore to use a
> > constructor which is implemented for 2.8 with GTK?
>
> I think it's worth checking that the stable wxcore doesn't already do
> this.
>
> --
> Eric Kow <http://erickow.com>
>

A very good suggestion.
I cabal unpacked wxcore-0.12.1.7 and it appears to have a fix in it¹.

Do we know why this fix is in the release, but not in darcs?


¹
#ifdef __WXGTK__
// See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.wxwidgets.general/45999
    return NULL;
#else