[Pkg-xfce-devel] Thunar and FAM/Gamin

Mathias Brodala info at noctus.net
Fri May 4 23:05:41 UTC 2007


Hi Yves-Alexis.

Yves-Alexis Perez, 04.05.2007 22:36:
> On ven, 2007-05-04 at 18:45 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> Just a small question: how am I supposed to rebuild Thunar when it
>> depends on
>> libfam-dev which, when installing, would require removing Gamin?
> 
> corsac at hidalgo: apt-cache show libgamin-dev | grep Provides
> Provides: libfam-dev

I see.

>> I do know the reasons[0] for this, but choosing implies that I could
>> also build
>> against Gamin, which I am unable to now. 
> 
> But we currently build-conflicts against libgamin-dev so we avoid using
> *only* gamin. If you really want to build against gamin libs, just
> remove the Build-Conflicts in debian/control (but I don't really know
> what would you do that)

To actually get Thunar built, which is impossible at the moment?

> $ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package is thunar
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.8.0-2
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at corsac.net>
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 0.8.0-2
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Build conflicts: libgamin-dev
> dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
> dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
> $ dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -d
> dpkg-buildpackage: source package is thunar
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.8.0-2
> dpkg-buildpackage: source changed by Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at corsac.net>
> dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture i386
> dpkg-buildpackage: source version without epoch 0.8.0-2
>  debian/rules clean
> test -x debian/rules
> test "`id -u`" = 0
> make: *** [testroot] Error 1
> $ 

So I *had* to remove the build-conflict. If you use Gamin, you are not able to
built Thunar without doing that. (So it looks to me at least. Please tell me if
I overlooked something.)


Regards, Mathias

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