Subject: Re: I plan to move AbiGdkPixbuf into the main tree.
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 08:03:31 CST
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 08:20, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > rms, the code that is in the plugin is now in the main abiword tree. No
> > plugin gets made during the main build, the functionality provided by the
> > plugin is now provided by the main gnome build.
>
> > As for how to build a gtk-only gdk-pixbuf plugin, - frankly I don't know
> > or care very much. The plugin I wrote assumed the existance of gdk-pixbuf
> > linked to the main abiword tree - this was only true for the gnome build
> > anyway.
>
>
> > In other words the gdk-pixbuf loader would not work for gtk only builds.
>
> You can have the gdk-pixbuf library and not the full gnome as well.
>
> Yes it does, as long as you have libgdk_pixbuf.so and the remaining
> loaders.
>
> Furthermore:
>
> [rms@roque rms]$ ldd /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf.so.2
> libgmodule-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-1.2.so.0 (0x40026000)
> libglib-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-1.2.so.0 (0x40029000)
> libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4004b000)
> libgtk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-1.2.so.0 (0x4004f000)
> libgdk-1.2.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-1.2.so.0 (0x4017d000)
> libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x401b1000)
> libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x401b9000)
> libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x401c7000)
> libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x402a5000)
> libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x402c8000)
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
>
> gdk-pixbuf requires no gnome.
>
> > To make it work for gtk-only would require forking gdk-pixbuf and a few
> > other gnome libraries. I'm not sure which. They are all available for the
> > gnome platform which is MUCH richer than gtk-only. This seems pretty
> > silly. The gtk-only build is for people who for some reason don't want or
> > don't have all the gnome libraries.
> >
> > I suggest we no longer make rpms of the gdk-pixbuf loader plugin. We can
> > keep the code in the plugin tree though. It might be useful for someone.
>
> So, while previously both gtk build and gnome build could benefit from
> gdk pixbuf, currently, only the gnome build will.
>
> Quite frankly, I can't consider this an improvement, and this makes
> little sense.
>
> I say let the plugin go back to the abiword-plugins module.
>
The plugin is still there. I did not touch that code at all. This is great
that you can make it assuming just gdk-pixbuf. Keep doing it. The more the
merrier. Everyone is happy.
Cheers
Martin
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