Bug 38941

Summary:	stable gnomemeeting-0.98.0 will not build against stable libxml2-2.6.x
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Duncan Coutts (RETIRED) <dcoutts>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Description Duncan Coutts (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-21 11:22:19 UTC

The current x86 stable version of gnomemeeting does not compile against the current x86 stable version of libxml2.

This is a known bug, because the ebuild for gnomemeeting-0.98.5 applies a patch to make it work with libxml2. However, gnomemeeting-0.98.5 is still masked. So people not using ~x86 will hit this build error.

Can we fix this by marking gnomemeeting-0.98.5 stable?
The gnomemeeting developers claim it is the latest stable version.

Alternatively, can we do gnomemeeting-0.98.0-r1 including the libxm2-2.6 patch?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge libxml2         (to get latest stable version 2.6.3)
2. emerge gnomemeeting    (to rebuild stable gnomemeeting-0.98.0)
3. 

Actual Results:  
gnomemeeting build fails on an error to do with changes in the libxml2 headers.
Not much detail is needed here, because someone has already patched it in the
ebuild for 0.98.5, but that doesn't resolve the inconsistency in the stable
portage tree.

Expected Results:  
gnomemeeting-0.98.0 should build ok.

A temporary workaround is to emerge gnomemeeting-0.98.5

Comment 1 foser (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-21 15:19:58 UTC

i think we can, liquidx ?

Comment 2 Alastair Tse (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-01-21 17:32:31 UTC

yes, there shouldn't be any problems marking that stable - and i've just done that ..