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[gaim-migrate @ 5720]
Tim Mooney (enchanter) writes:
"configure.ac calls AC_PATH_XTRA and then assumes
$x_libraries will be
set. You can't rely on this, because on platforms
where the libraries and headers are in places that the
development toolchain searches by default, configure
will *NOT* set $x_libraries or $x_includes.
This incorrect assumption causes configure to miss
several X-related tests, and it causes the final link
to fail on platforms like Tru64 UNIX or Solaris
(and likely others)."
as this did not break my compile, i'm going ahead and committing this.
committer: Tailor Script <tailor@pidgin.im>
author | Luke Schierer <lschiere@pidgin.im> |
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date | Sat, 10 May 2003 12:47:17 +0000 |
parents | 10b5ac17fdd6 |
children | da88e2cd5c53 |
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Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant ------------------------------------ General ------- - Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths - Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf - Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME") - Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to be included. - Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode. e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb"); Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. i.e. newline -> <CR><LF> Paths ----- - DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions. Doing the following will therefore break the windows build: printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png"); it should be: printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png"); - When writing out paths to .gaimrc, use wgaim_escape_dirsep. This is necessary because the Windows dir separator '\' is being used to escape characters, when paths are read in from the .gaimrc file. PLUGINS & PROTOS ---------------- - G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init) - G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your dynamic library. (E.G. connections) (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)