Building 2.1.0 failes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)

Etan Reisner pidgin at unreliablesource.net
Tue Aug 7 11:29:14 EDT 2007


On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 06:09:41PM +0300, Zvi Har'El wrote:
> Thanks for your answer, but I have upgraded glib to 2.12.9 after Johan's
> suggestion and the build now succeeds. As I wrote to him, I don't mind
> upgrading glib, but pidgin's configure script should check for glib-2.0
> >= 2.8.0 and not glib-2.0 >= 2.0.0 as it doesn now! Cheers, Zvi.

The patches suggested make compiling on older glib versions possible, as
it is fully our intention to work with versions of glib as old as 2.0.0.
So no, the configure script should not be changed as it is correct as
written.

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	-Etan




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