[SCIM] Please help me test the newest SCIM code.

Ming Hua minghua at rice.edu
Thu May 13 19:37:13 PDT 2004


On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:14:34AM +0800, James Su wrote:
> Ming Hua wrote:
> >On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 06:41:38PM +0800, James Su wrote:
> >>Recently, I implemented the configuration reload feature in CVS head 
> >>code. Now, most of the configurations can be changed and then reloaded 
> >>on the fly, just by right clicking on the tray icon or im button and 
> >>clicking the command menu item "Reload Configuration".
> >
> >A quick compiling revealed a change:  all the dynamically loaded module
> >(e.g., ${PREFIX}/lib/scim-1.0/0.99.0/Server/table) is missing the .so
> >suffix (the file in example was named table.so before).  Is this
> >intentional?  I looked at /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/immodules and all the
> >IM modules there are named *.so, so maybe we should at least keep the
> >consistency for ${PREFIX}/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/immodules/im-scim.so?
> >
> >I also had problem installing scim-chinese CVS HEAD, but it may be due
> >to misconfiguration on my side, so I'll clarify it and report later.
>
> I did not met this issue in my box. And I had move 
> /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.2.0/immodules/im-scim.so to /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/immodules/

Hmm, I was using my old CVS checkout tree, and something must went wrong
there, since a fresh new CVS checkout seems to solve this problem.

So what is the correct way to rebuild from the CVS checkout?  Right now
I use
    $ ./bootstrap
    $ ./configure
    $ make
but obviously it's not enough.

Ming
2004.05.13

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