| Summary: | unclear error message if your GLib is too old | ||
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| Product: | dbus | Reporter: | Sergei Steshenko <sergstesh> |
| Component: | GLib | Assignee: | Simon McVittie <smcv> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | John (J5) Palmieri <johnp> |
| Severity: | minor | ||
| Priority: | medium | CC: | walters |
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | patch |
| Hardware: | x86 (IA32) | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
| URL: | http://git.collabora.co.uk/?p=user/smcv/dbus-glib-smcv.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/error-clarity-33145 | ||
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| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
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| Bug Blocks: | 23616 | ||
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autogenerated script used to run 'configure'
'config.log' generated by 'configure' Stop overriding pkg-config's nice informative message if GLib is too old |
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Created attachment 42072 [details]
'config.log' generated by 'configure'
Changing platform, priority, etc. OK, I see in 'config.log': "Requested 'gobject-2.0 >= 2.26' but version of GObject is 2.24.2" - i.e. first of all the error message in screen output is unclear - typically version errors are prominently printed. Looking at http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/2.26/ I see: " for GLib 2.26.1 The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line at http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/. " - I do not quite like the "unstable" part of the URL. (In reply to comment #3) > OK, I see in 'config.log': > > "Requested 'gobject-2.0 >= 2.26' but version of GObject is 2.24.2" That's the real bug here: we need a newer GLib than you have, but the message isn't clear. (In reply to comment #4) > The latest version of this documentation can be found on-line > at http://library.gnome.org/devel/glib/unstable/. That doesn't mean that *every* version of GLib is unstable, it just means that the unstable branch (currently 2.27.x) is the newest. The latest stable branch is currently 2.26.x. When GLib 2.28 is released (soon), 2.28.x will be the new stable branch and 2.29.x will be the new unstable branch. Created attachment 44998 [details] [review] Stop overriding pkg-config's nice informative message if GLib is too old This means that instead of this rather ambiguous text: checking for DBUS_GLIB... no checking for DBUS_GLIB_THREADS... yes configure: error: GLib development libraries not found platforms whose GLib is too old will get the conventional output: checking for DBUS_GLIB... no configure: error: Package requirements (gobject-2.0 >= 2.26) were not met: Requested 'gobject-2.0 >= 2.26' but version of GObject is 2.24.0 --- I personally think it's weird to use DBUS_GLIB as the variable name - we should be using GLIB or GOBJECT - but that's a more intrusive change, since the Makefiles need corresponding changes. (In reply to comment #6) > Created an attachment (id=44998) [details] > Stop overriding pkg-config's nice informative message if GLib is too old Looks obviously good; idly curious why we were overriding it in the first place, but not really worth the archaeology necessary. Fixed in git for 0.94, commit 0f782b478a. |
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Created attachment 42071 [details] autogenerated script used to run 'configure' I do not know where to file bugs against 'dbus-glib', so I'm filing it here. Running 'configure' using the attached autogenerated script I'm getting: " checking for DBUS... yes checking for DBUS_GLIB... no checking for DBUS_GLIB_THREADS... yes configure: error: GLib development libraries not found ". Using exactly the same settings I successfully build dbus-glib-0.88. The messages are strange first of because 'configure' checks for 'dbus-glib' which is supposed to be built.