Failed to build eclipse with gnome 2.12 (failed on cario)

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
> В ср, 14/09/2005 в 11:13 +0300, Panagiotis Astithas пишет:
> 
>>Vladimir Grebenschikov wrote:
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> 
>>This seems to be caused by the updated cairo 1.0.0 in gnome 2.12. 
>>Eclipse 3.1 depends on cairo 0.4 and cairo has changed its ABI 
>>afterwards. I think Eclipse 3.2M1 has been updated for cairo 0.6, which 
>>should be ABI-compatible to cairo 1.0.0, according to this:
>>
>>https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=106527
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> 
>>We could use the patches for 3.1 in that report, 
> 
> 
> I've tried, but it is not applied cleanly from first try. Patch is big
> enough.
> Do you have any estimation about eclipse-3.2M1 getting into ports tree ?

Well, to be honest, I was planning to port the first milestone that will 
have our submitted patches merged. If that seems to take forever though 
and we can't use eclipse at all with a current gnome, I'll certainly 
reconsider.

>>but I would feel safer if we could preserve the cairo 0.4 libraries in /usr/local/lib/compat 
>>during the upgarde, as you suggested.
> 
> 
> Another issue with eclipse 3.1 (built on gnome-2.10) and gnome-2.12:
> with default gnome-2.12 skin (clear-look) it is impossible to see
> current item in menu (it has gray foreground and gray background).
> Probably it is just problem of building eclipse with recent gnome.

Interesting, I see. I'll do the upgrade to gnome 2.12 to have a 
first-hand experience, when I get some free time (which is rather scarce 
these weeks).

Regards,

Panagiotis