dbus-viewer needs really new gtk2?

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Mon Mar 28 15:02:18 PST 2005


On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 00:50 +0200, Tako Schotanus wrote:
> I'm getting a compiler error for the dbsu-viewer in the tools folder:
> 
> dbus-viewer.o(.text+0x713): In function `name_combo_changed_callback':
> /home/tako/projects/dbus/dbus/tools/dbus-viewer.c:383: undefined 
> reference to `gtk_combo_box_get_active_text'
> 
> Googling around I find a reference that this function only exists in 
> gtk2 2.6 and higher, my gtk2 is 2.4 so I guess this is standard on FC3. 
> Is it possible to rewrite this viewer to not use this function? I know 
> this is all cutting edge technology but I'd rather not upgrade my entire 
> system just to compile a dbus tool :-)
> 

dbus-viewer isn't really good for anything right now, and I think gtk
2.6 will be common by the time dbus reaches 1.0.

If someone wants to patch it out though that's fine with me.

Havoc




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