Re: trying to get Gentoo to upgrade Balsa version

[Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net>]

[this time to the list...]

On 2011.11.23 19:04, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi Jack,
>
> On Nov 23, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Jack <ostroffjh sbcglobal net> wrote:
>
> > On 2011.11.23 02:13, Pawel Salek wrote:
> >> On 11/23/2011 03:51:54 AM, Jack wrote:
> >>> Gentoo Linux currently has Balsa 2.4.8 as the only available  
> version.  I don't know what the build issues were with 2.4.9, but  
> 2.4.10 and 2.4.11 fail to build with g-mime 2.6.  The gentoo bug to  
> bump the version of balsa is  
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=388169, and refers to the  
> compile problem, logged as  
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664560.  I have not tried  
> building this myself yet.  Gentoo has both 2.4 and 2.6 of gmime  
> available as stable, but I suspect they will not accept a stable  
> balsa requiring gmime 2.4 but not 2.6.  Is there a known issue with  
> gmime, or has it simply not been brought up yet?
> >> There is a build issue: GMimeCypherContext is said to replaced  
> with GMimeCryptoContext. Replacing all occurrences of the former one  
> with the latter one should do the job - but I have not tried it  
> myself!
> > I assume it would need to be wrapped in some sort of IFDEF based on  
> whether you had 2.4 or 2.6.  I won't have time to even look at it  
> until early next week, and I'm not even sure I'm capable of doing it,  
> but I'll give it a try if nobody else gets to it first.
>
> The gtk3 branch was recently patched to build with GMime 2.6, using a  
> spray of ifdef's.  See commit  
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/balsa/commit/?h=gtk3&id=1947b1be7b13f6c3876dd3b53dd3ab52634fff01
>
> The GMime code in that branch should have been the same as master,  
> prior to that commit, so the corresponding patch should apply to  
> master without too much work.  Should at least save someone some  
> work. I'd try it myself, but this phone doesn't have the build chain  
> :)

Thanks.  I'll post that to the Gentoo bug, but I figure it would be  
better if one of the devels posted to the gnome bug.  Also, if that  
commit seems good, would it be worth releasing as a patch version (I  
don't know there can be a 2.4.11.x or if this is enough to jump to  
2.4.12, but I don't know if Gentoo would be willing to add the patch  
locally, knowing that it is already in master upstream.  I'll report  
back.)

Jack