Taming the beast [was: Re: guile-gobject 0.3.0 Released]

[rm at fabula dot de]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 05:16:22PM -0500, Neil W. Van Dyke wrote:
 
> In case anyone else has trouble building guile-gobject 0.3.0, here's the
> minor changes I needed.  Haven't actually run it, but it compiled.
> 
> 1. File "gobject/guile-gnome-gobject-primitives.c": Renamed identifiers
>    beginning with "g_param_get_" to begin with "g_param_spec_get_", per
>    http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-2-0-list/2001-November/msg00121.html
> 
> 2. File "corba/Makefile.in": Added "$(GUILE_CFLAGS)" to "INCLUDES".
> 
> 3. File "corba/guile-gnome-corba-types.c": Temporarily added explicit cast to
>    get it to compile:   g_message (G_STRLOC ": %d", (int)gtype);
> 
> 4. Dependency on "libxml2" devel library does not seem to be checked by
>    configure script.  Other libraries might also need checking; this one 
>    noticed only because this particular box happened to be missing that
>    library.

Thanks for this info, it saved some time. Even after applying your 
changes i couldn't compile guile-gobject with my CVS guile . 
It seems that the code uses some deprecated/removed features. To get
a more or less error free compile i had to do the following:

 - change type 'scm_bits_t' to 'scm_t_bits' (see file NEWS in guile-core).

 - change 'LIST1, LIST2 ... LISTN' to 'scm_list_1 ... scm_list_n'
   (again, see file NEWS in guile-core).

 

With these modifications i can at least compile the shared library part.
Now, during 'make' i get the following errror:

|  make[2]: Entering directory `/home/ralf/projects/guile-gobject-0.3.0/gobject'
|  FLAVOR=gnome guile -c \
|  "(set! %load-path (cons \"..\" %load-path)) \
|   (primitive-load \"./gnome-gobject.gwp\")"
|  ERROR: Unbound variable: nil
|  make[2]: *** [gnomegobject.h] Error 2
|  make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ralf/projects/guile-gobject-0.3.0/gobject'
|  make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
|  make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ralf/projects/guile-gobject-0.3.0'
|  make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2
|  
 
Hmm,  no idea where 'nil' is supposed to come from. 
A quick grep didn't reveal anything. Ariel, any hints?

 Ralf Mattes