gtk2 is too old (?)

[bmarkus]

Current gtk2 version in the repo is 2.14.7 dated back to January 2009, while current is 2.18.2

It is causing a problem maintaining one of my extensions (libwnck) where 2.14.7 is too old to compile latest version.

Jason:

I know your are working a lot for TC. It is not urgent, but soon will cause problems keeping extensions up to date as gtk2 is one the most crucial library and used by many extensions.

[Jason W]

I have ignored gtk2 for as long as I can.     It being a critical library, I left it alone since it was working so well.  Gtk2 now requires more hardcoded X lib dependencies, but I have built it once last week and with the other libs I put in the Xlibs_support extension it should be all good. 

I will shoot for it tonight.  It may require pygtk to be updated as it's defs are only for 2.10, 2.12, and 2.14.  But pygtk is a quick build.

[bmarkus]

To be on the safe side maybe you can make a test version like with Python 2.5 -> 2.6 move not to risk applications stability.

[Jason W]

I think that would be a good idea since there seems to be more substantial changes from our version to 2.18.  I will upload a test version tonight to allow testing.

[Jason W]

Ok.  Here is a build to test, left as one for testing - I will split it up before posting.  It creates the /usr/local/tce.installed/{gtk2,gtk2-devs,gtk2-locales} with the startup script.  It is named aaa-gtk2-testing so it will get loaded first upon boot and no other apps will complain of gtk2 not being available in the tcedir.  I uploaded it here since it is not meant for widespread use so it is no in the repo.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/tce/src/gtk-testing/

[Jason W]

Gtk2 2.18 seems to play well with current pygtk and the gtk apps I normally use.  I will test rebuild Shiretoko and other apps with it, and if I don't see issues or get negative feedback I will seperate this into packages and replace the current gtk2, gtk2-dev, and gtk2-locale extensions in a week.

[Juanito]

Is /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkconfig.h missing from the extension, maybe?

I get this when trying to compile rygel-0.4.2 and bluez-gnome-1.8 against the new extension:

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make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/rygel-0.4.2/src/rygel'
Making all in ui
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/rygel-0.4.2/src/ui'
  CC     rygel-preferences-dialog.o
In file included from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkscreen.h:32,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkapplaunchcontext.h:31,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:32,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:32,
                 from rygel-preferences-dialog.c:30:
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdktypes.h:55:23: error: gdkconfig.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkwindow.h:35,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkdialog.h:35,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaboutdialog.h:32,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:33,
                 from rygel-preferences-dialog.c:30:
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:77: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:78: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:79: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:80: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:81: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
Edit: Should Xlibs_support and Xorg-7.4-devs be deps for the extension?

[Jason W]

I made the dep file more in line with gtk2-dev.  I will look into the header file, most likely I need to recompile.

[Juanito]

I checked again with the current gtk2 -  bluez-gnome compiles without problems and I cannot test rygel as it requires gtk2 > 2.16.

[bmarkus]

gtk2.tczl is listed in aaa-gtk2-testing.tczl.dep which blocks system startup (TC 2.4.1):

Xorg-7.4-dev.tcz
perl5.tcz
atk.tczl
atk-devs.tcz
cairo.tczl
cairo-devs.tcz
glib2.tczl
glib2-dev.tcz
fontconfig.tczl
fontconfig-devs.tcz
expat2.tczl
expat2-devs.tcz
libxml2.tczl
libxml2-devs.tcz
graphics-libs-1.tczl
graphics-libs-1-devs.tcz
gtk2.tczl
pixman.tczl
pixman-devs.tcz
pango.tczl
pango-devs.tcz
Xlibs_support.tczl

Removing it systems starts and applications look OK.

However can't compile libwnck, there is a long list of error messages, mostly duplicate member and field '...' declared as a function in different header files. Same result compiling other applications.

[Jason W]

I will adjust the dep file.

I will need to recompile, may not get to it this week though.

EDIT:  But I will see what I can do.

[Juanito]

there is a long list of error messages, mostly duplicate member and field '...' declared as a function in different header files. Same result compiling other applications.

A useful trick, in case you didn't know, is to do as follows:

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$ script compile_error
$ make
<ctrl-d>
$ beaver compile_error
This will allow you to see the initial make error in case the terminal window buffer overflows.

[bmarkus]

there is a long list of error messages, mostly duplicate member and field '...' declared as a function in different header files. Same result compiling other applications.

A useful trick, in case you didn't know, is to do as follows:

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$ script compile_error
$ make
<ctrl-d>
$ beaver compile_error
This will allow you to see the initial make error in case the terminal window buffer overflows.

Thanks for the advice on script command. I have never used it, more convenient than redirect output. I'm using MC for editing files. So to see messages is not a problem, but to fix them   . These are the messages compiling libwnck:

root@box:/mnt/sdb3/src/libwnck/libwnck-2.28.0# make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb3/src/libwnck/libwnck-2.28.0'
Making all in libwnck
make[2]: Entering directory `/mnt/sdb3/src/libwnck/libwnck-2.28.0/libwnck'
  CC     wnck-enum-types.lo
In file included from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkscreen.h:32,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkapplaunchcontext.h:31,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:32,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:32,
                 from ../libwnck/pager.h:27,
                 from ../libwnck/libwnck.h:32,
                 from wnck-enum-types.c:4:
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdktypes.h:55:23: error: gdkconfig.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkwindow.h:35,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkdialog.h:35,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaboutdialog.h:32,
                 from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:33,
                 from ../libwnck/pager.h:27,
                 from ../libwnck/libwnck.h:32,
                 from wnck-enum-types.c:4:
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:77: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:77: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:78: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:78: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:79: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:79: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:80: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:80: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:81: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:81: error: field 'GSEAL' declared as a function
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:78: error: duplicate member 'GSEAL'
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:79: error: duplicate member 'GSEAL'
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:79: error: duplicate member '({anonymous})'
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:80: error: duplicate member 'GSEAL'
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:80: error: duplicate member '({anonymous})'
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:80: error: duplicate member '({anonymous})'
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:81: error: duplicate member 'GSEAL'
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:81: error: duplicate member '({anonymous})'
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:81: error: duplicate member '({anonymous})'
/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkaccelgroup.h:81: error: duplicate member '({anonymous})
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[Juanito]

To be confirmed, but I believe the problem is this:

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/usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdktypes.h:55:23: error: gdkconfig.h: No such file or directory

[Jason W]

As I made the extension with the "touch /tmp/mark && make install && find /usr/local......" method so the pixbuf loaders would be created, there likely is an issue with missing files. 

I will rebuild this when I can, and using Arch or Gentoo's build method I will use the DESTDIR option and create the immodule and pixbuf loaders manually in the DESTDIR directory so there will be no missing files.,