Re: where to get bonobo-activation 2.3.3

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 08:56, Jacob Schmude wrote:
> Hi all
> Just tried to compile the latest java-access-bridge. Turns out I need 
> bonobo-activation 2.3.3. My rh9 system has 2.2.2 on it. I checked 
> bonobo-activation out from the gnome cvs repository, and it seems to be 
> version 2.2.2. The latest I see on ftp.gnome.org is 2.2.3. Where do I get 
> this and other recent gnome libraries?

OK, let's agree up front not to shoot the messenger here. I do not come
bearing entirely good news...

During the GNOME 2.3 development period, bonbobo-activation-server was
merged into libbonobo. The 2.3.3 version is one of those from after the
merge has taken place.

So, in order to get the latest bonobo-activation stuff, you need the
latest development version of libbonobo (either from CVS or from a
development snapshot tarball on ftp.gnome.org). The catch here is that
this may introduce any number of interesting problems if you try to mix
it with GNOME 2.2 versions of various things. I unfortunately cannot
tell you in advance what will happen, since I do not have a 2.2
installation on my machine at the moment (due to severe hard-drive space
problems).

The safest solution is to build all of GNOME 2.3 in a separate prefix
somewhere using something like jhbuild (from CVS) or garnome (from
tarballs). The more adventurous solution is to just try the new version
and see, but that is going to be a bit fiddly too, since I seem to
recall you will also need to rebuild linc and ORBit2 and they introduce
binary incompatibilities with other stuff.

Cheers,
Malcolm