Re: Building against old libraries

[John Darrington]

OK.  How about the attached patch.  It adds an option to ./configure
called --enable-anachronistic-dependencies which relaxes the gtk+
version. 

This can't address the gettext issue, because that's determined at
the automake level.  I suggest that Ed just changes the [0.17] to
[0.16] in hist local copy until lenny has become stable.


J'


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:20:28AM +0100, Ed wrote:
     Works for me.
     
     Ed
     
     2008/5/28 Ben Pfaff <address@hidden>:
     > John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:
     >
     >> How about we do this:
     >>
     >> By default, the dependency requirements stay as they are.  But we add
     >> a switch to ./configure; let's call it --allow-old-deps which turns
     >> off, or relaxes the dependency checking.  And we add a Caveat Emptor
     >> entry to the release notes.
     >>
     >> This way, I think the necessary changes to configure.ac etc will be
     >> minimal, and a lot easier to maintain.
     >
     > This sounds reasonable to me.
     >
     > Ed, would this be enough to make you feel happy doing development
     > on Debian stable?

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