Re: gnome-vfs circular build dependency

["D.M.D. Ljungmark ( Spider )" <spider takeit se>]

Dmitry G. Mastrukov wrote / skrev:
> В ?? 18.02.2004, в 23:35, Christopher Parker пишет:
>
> > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 04:48, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> >
> > > As noted in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134718 we now have
> > > a circular build dependency.
> > >
> > > This is the new gnome-vfs backend module for the new gtk+ file selector.
> > > It uses libgnomeui for the gnome_icon_lookup function. The building of
> > > the filesel backend is optional, so you can still bootstrap, but you
> > > have to build gnome-vfs twice if you want to bootstrap from scratch and
> > > get the gtk module.
> > >
> > > What should we do about this? Split out the gnome-vfs filesel backend to
> > > a different or a new module? Keep the circular deps? Any other idea?

> > I have been having this same problem building from jhbuild this morning
> > and was just about to post a bug.  Thanks for saving me the time.


> I was just about too. More of that I was naot able to build gnome-vfs
> unless I changed check in configure.in from
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.3.1 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.5.1, AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GTK, true))
> to 
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.3.1 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.5.1, AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GTK, true), AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GTK, false))
>
> IMHO cross-dependency is a bad idea. I think functionality from gtk
> subdir in gnome-vfs should be merged in libgnomeui or a new module for
> it should be created.


This is a package-wise -Very bad thing-  As you once more introduce the
magic of "what is in the buildsystem changes whats built"  and wreck
havoc on packaging systems by making dependency tracking go bonkers.

I urge you to change this in release time or there will be some very bad
breakage due to downstream people having to deal with this in patchy ways.


//Spider
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