Re: GLib version?

[Csahok Zoltan]

Hi Tom, hi Nate,

Thanks for the feedback. My conclusion is that it's safe to assume
that GLib >=2.40.0 is generally available.
Will change configure.ac accordingly (hard check).

I'm still wondering though where are the debian pkg dependencies specified
and how come Tlf 1.4.0 has different settings.

BTW in debian Tlf recommends sox and xplanet, but not cwdaemon.
Could this also be improved?


73,
Zoli

On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 06:53:49AM +0100, Thomas Beierlein wrote:
> Hi Zoli,
> 
> Am Wed, 20 Nov 2019 19:48:12 +0100
> schrieb Csahok Zoltan <address@hidden>:
> 
> > I would like to use GLib version >=2.40 for set-related hash table
> > functions (g_hash_table_add).
> 
> I tried the same back in 2015 while coding the focm.c contest module.
> 
> At that time 2.40 was just out for some months but not widely in use.
> So I had to fall back to g_hash_table_replace with key and value the
> same (see there). 
> 
> In meantime nearly all distributions should provide an more actual
> version of GLib.
> 
> > 
> > A quick check of Debian buster shows that it contains GLib 2.58.
> > On the other hand, tlf in that release (1.3.2) requires only GLib
> > 2.35.9. Similar (or even worse) for sid: tlf 1.4.0 requires 2.30.0
> > for non-alpha/powerpc, whereas GLib 2.62 is deployed.
> > 
> > configure.ac doesn't explicitly mention the required version, so this
> > must come from somewhere else. Could this and the Debian (and other
> > distro) packages be fixed so that at least 2.40 is required?
> 
> If we need 2.40 we should state so in the configure.ac. 
> 
> 73, de Tom
> 
> 
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