[LightDM] LightDM 0.4.0 released

[Robert Ancell]

On 17 June 2011 16:43, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:
> On ven., 2011-06-17 at 14:18 +1000, Robert Ancell wrote:
>> I've just released version 0.4.0 of LightDM:
>> http://people.ubuntu.com/~robert-ancell/lightdm/releases/lightdm-0.4.0.tar.gz
>>
>> This release took a lot longer than I wanted, mostly due to the
>> difficulty of getting regression tests set up (system processes really
>> don't like being tested without accessing the system).  But the good
>> news is we now have 8 tests, you can run these using 'make check'.  I
>> plan to add a lot more over time, and this should make it a lot harder
>> to have regressions from now on.
>>
>> Other things of note:
>> - There were a number of crashes that have been fixed and also the
>> code is more paranoid about NULL checking.  There may be more issues
>> so please test thoroughly!
>> - There were a number of issues with signal handling that have now
>> been fixed.  This should make LightDM shutdown more reliably.
>> - Some changes to the API to have more sane names, see
>> ldm_greeter_login and ldm_greeter_start_session (and the Qt
>> equivalents).  This will require greeters to be updated to work in
>> 0.4+
>> - I've moved the config file from /etc/ to /etc/lightdm/.  This is to
>> allow more configuration files for new features that will be coming.
>> - Autologin now correctly uses PAM to authenticate, previously it did
>> not so sessions may not have all their services started.
>
> Seems to fails to build with -z,defs:
>
>  CCLD   test-gobject-greeter
> /usr/bin/ld: test_gobject_greeter-test-gobject-greeter.o: undefined reference to symbol 'g_type_init'
> /usr/bin/ld: note: 'g_type_init' is defined in DSO /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 so try adding it to the linker command line
> /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0: could not read symbols: Invalid operation
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Does src/lightdm fail for the same reason?  Or is this new with 0.4.0?