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Bug 134718 - new gtk+ support creates circular dependency
new gtk+ support creates circular dependency
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-vfs
Classification: Deprecated
Component: Build
cvs (head)
Other Linux
: Normal blocker
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Assigned To: gnome-vfs maintainers
gnome-vfs maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-02-18 10:29 UTC by david.hawthorne
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.5/2.6


Description david.hawthorne 2004-02-18 10:29:39 UTC 
The recent changes to configure.in means 'libgnomeui' is now a dependency
of 'gnome-vfs'
'libgnome' is a dependency of 'libgnomeui'. In turn, 'gnome-vfs' is a
dependency of 'libgnome'. This creates a circular dependency:

libgnomeui -> gnome-vfs -> libgnome -> libgnomeui -> gnome-vfs
Comment 1 Alexander Larsson 2004-02-18 10:50:34 UTC 
I mailed desktop-devel-list about this.
Comment 2 Fabio Gomes 2004-02-20 02:02:04 UTC 
I talked to Alex and Owen about this on IRC today, and they told me to
make this modification in gnome-vfs configure.in:

From:

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.3.1 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.5.1,
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GTK, true))

To:

PKG_CHECK_MODULES(GTK, gtk+-2.0 >= 2.3.1 libgnomeui-2.0 >= 2.5.1,
AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_GTK, true),:)

Now, if gnome-vfs does not find libgnomeui, it simply disables it and
builds correctly.

Since I confirmed to Alex that it worked, he told me that he would fix
this on CVS. It may be already fixed right now. Can anyone confirm this?
Comment 3 DmD (Spider) Ljungmark 2004-02-24 10:22:17 UTC 
Okay. Shiney happy solution here.

As a packager, how do you suppose we should deal with this?  Manually
split gnome-vfs apart just to accept this case scenario? 

Trust auto-magic dependencies and have binary packages that arent
looking the same each time because of randomized dependency based
build order?

please, I ask you to reconsider this as it will cause downstream
maintainers severe headaches.
Comment 4 Christophe Fergeau 2004-02-24 10:29:39 UTC 
Spider: if your complaint is about the auto enabling/disabling of the
fileselector stuff depending on libgnomeui availability, there's
actually a --with-gtk=yes/no/auto flag in the latest gnome-vfs release.
If it's about the circular dependency, the problem will be dealt with
before the 2.6 release.
Comment 5 Christophe Fergeau 2004-02-24 22:35:26 UTC 
The fileselector code has been moved to libgnomeui, resolving the
circular dependency issue.