RE: problem with ORBit and Gnome releases

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

The problem is not with gnome 1.0 but with balsa and gnome-chess. They
havent been released since before gnome 1.0

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Markus Linnala [SMTP:maage@cs.tut.fi]
> Sent:	Friday, March 05, 1999 4:30 PM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	problem with ORBit and Gnome releases
> 
> 
> I expect every package at Gnome releas to build from sources
> without tweaking. I suppose this is not too much to ask for?
> 
> This is not true always. ORBit is updated and packages
> containing idl-files are not updated to use the latest orbit.
> They give errors like this (this is from Gnome v1.0 release
> package balsa-0.4.9):
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Making all in idl
> make[2]: Entering directory `/opt/src/balsa.build/idl'
> gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/usr/src/gimp/gnome/balsa/idl -I..
> -I/opt/gnome/include -DNEED_GNOMESUPPORT_H
> -I/opt/gnome/lib/gnome-libs/include -I/opt/gnome/lib/glib/include
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/gnome/lib/glib/include
> -I/opt/gnome/include -O2 -g -pipe -c
> /usr/src/gimp/gnome/balsa/idl/balsa-skels.c
> In file included from /usr/src/gimp/gnome/balsa/idl/balsa.h:7,
>                  from /usr/src/gimp/gnome/balsa/idl/balsa-skels.c:6:
> /opt/gnome/include/orb/orbit.h:37: #error "You need to rerun 'orbit-idl'
> on the .idl file whose stubs you are using. These stubs were generated
> with an older version of ORBit, and need to be regenerated."
> In file included from /opt/gnome/include/orb/allocators.h:8,
>                  from /opt/gnome/include/orb/orbit.h:56,
>                  from /usr/src/gimp/gnome/balsa/idl/balsa.h:7,
>                  from /usr/src/gimp/gnome/balsa/idl/balsa-skels.c:6:
> /opt/gnome/include/orb/orbit.h:37: #error "You need to rerun 'orbit-idl'
> on the .idl file whose stubs you are using. These stubs were generated
> with an older version of ORBit, and need to be regenerated."
> In file included from /opt/gnome/include/orb/dii.h:30,
>                  from /opt/gnome/include/orb/orbit.h:58,
>                  from /usr/src/gimp/gnome/balsa/idl/balsa.h:7,
>                  from /usr/src/gimp/gnome/balsa/idl/balsa-skels.c:6:
> /opt/gnome/include/orb/interface_repository.h:6: warning:
> `ORBIT_IDL_SERIAL' redefined
> /usr/src/gimp/gnome/balsa/idl/balsa.h:6: warning: this is the location of
> the previous definition
> make[2]: *** [balsa-skels.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/src/balsa.build/idl'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/src/balsa.build'
> make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Gnome-chess(v0.0.1) has also similar problem.
> 
> If I translate this situation correctly, there is dependance
> between orbit.h and idl-generated files here. Would it be
> possible to have Makefile rule to build these files
> automatically when orbit.h is new.
> 
> Or another way is to make sure every package at Gnome releases
> have updated idl-generated files before releasing the release.
> 
> -- 
> //Markus
> 
> 
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