[Pan-devel] Re: a few pan compile fixes

[Zing]

On Fri, 28 May 2010 15:59:36 -0700, walt wrote:

> On 05/27/2010 06:03 PM, Zing wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> The following are some fixes I had to make to get the lostcoder testing
>> branch compiled on Fedora 13.
> 
> Hi Zing, and thanks for contributing.  (I speak only for myself. I'm
> just a pan fan and not any part of the pan project.)

me too. :)

>> diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in -GMIME_REQUIRED=2.4.0
>> +GMIME_REQUIRED=2.5.0
> 
> I've read various man pages and tutorials about the gnu autotools and
> every time I quit in the middle because of migraine or nausea ;) but
> IIUC the changes above would break the build on my distribution, which
> uses gmime-2.4.
> 
> The patches raise the minimum acceptable version of gmime to 2.5, am I
> wrong about this?  Again, IIUC, my gmime-2.4 would flunk the test,
> right?  Or wrong?

I think you are exactly right.  I also don't really know autotools, so my 
goal here was to get in and out without too much fuss to get a working pan 
on my system.

I basically couldn't figure out a way to specify any gmime version above 
2.4 (specifically including 2.5/2.6).  That may be on purpose, or there 
may be a way; I don't know.  I suppose, in an ideal world,  Fedora would 
have provided a gmime24 compatibility package and this wouldn't be an 
issue, but alas, no such package exists today (maybe it should?).  If that 
is so, then maybe just best to ignore the gmime patches for now.