Re: Freeze exception request for system-monitor

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 07:24 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Chris Kühl <blixtra gmail com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Matthias Clasen
> > <matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Chris Kühl <blixtra gmail com> wrote:
> >>> Hiya,
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to request a freeze exception for a build issue in system-monitor.
> >>>
> >>> When enabling the new systemd support in system-monitor one gets a
> >>> build error with systemd v43 due to a function parameter named 'class'
> >>> in a header file. This makes it incompatible with C++ since 'class' is
> >>> a C++ keyword. You'll find the bug and patch here:
> >>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668574
> >>
> >> Doesn't sound super-urgent to me, since all the patch does is disallow
> >> building with systemd 43 - and that fails already...
> >
> > Yeah, but there is already a bug for that and there will probably be
> > many more if we release without this patch.
> >
> 
> If there are any distros out there with 43, then certainly. Since the
> patch looks right and harmless, +1 then.
> Lets see what others think.

Can't hurt to have an explicit error message already when running
configure, keeping in mind the time spent for guessing the problem in
the bug report.

r-t approval 2 of 2.

andre
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