[Buildroot] [PATCH] libglib2: Fix midori save file dialog not being rendered

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Fri Oct 5 14:03:22 UTC 2012


On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 17:54:59 +0400, Valentine Barshak wrote:

> > Thanks for all your great patches!
> 
> Thank you! I've been using buildroot for a while and I really like it.
> Just want to have as little deviations from the mainstream as
> possible :)

That's certainly a good motivation :)

> > Is there anything that prevents us from bumping libglib2 to this
> > version instead of backporting patches?
> 
> I tried to bump to 2.32.2 (and higher), but it didn't work for me.
> It doesn't build as is. It needs additional hacks to the
> libglib2-optional-ipv6.patch plus some minor configure script changes 
> (at least).
> 
> Even when I finally managed to build it, it didn't work.
> Starting any gtk application would result in no window being
> displayed. I've tried on a real x86 machine and vmware with no luck.
> It just hangs without displaying any errors or warnings.
> It's gonna take some time to debug. Probably some other packages
> have to be updated as well, I'm not sure.
> 
> Since cherry-picking this single change worked fine for me, I've
> decided to stick with it at least for now.

Argh, ok. I hope someone will find the time to fix this. It's not great
to get stuck with older versions due to regressions.

Best regards,

Thomas
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