[Adium-devl] [ANN] msn-pecan 0.0.12 released

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:25 AM, Evan Schoenberg <evan.s at dreskin.net> wrote:
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>  On May 2, 2008, at 6:18 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:
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> >
> > > Ah :) So it probably wouldn't divorce msn-pecan from the glib run loop?
> > >
> >
> > Right, if I decide to use GIO.
> >
> > The other option is to re-implement all the things GIO is doing, which
> > is what I have been doing somehow (in a much crappier way), but
> > doesn't seem ideal anymore.
> >
> > If I drop the GLib IO stuff I would need to properly wrap the IO
> > errors, and re-implement the buffering currently in msn-pecan (with
> > unit tests and everything).
> >
> > I would do that if there is no other option, but I would prefer Adium
> > to support the GLib's main loop :)
> >
>
>  I've added tentative support for the GLib main loop to Adium locally; my
> initial assessment is that running it with no input sources is cheap and
> harmless, so I'm okay with it so far. We'll see how it does in actual
> usage...
>
>  Patch attached:
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>
>  As far as I know, we need for msn-pecan to support configure for
> determination of its makefile to be able to build it easily for use in
> Adium, as we have to actually build with cross-compilation (PowerPC and
> Intel processors).  I don't want to ask the wrong question... so do you know
> of a way to do so with the current Makefile setup you're using? If not,
> that'll be the next step, I think, and it would be a good thing for the
> distribution overall most likely.

Sure, I'll add the changes required.

But AFAIK the only thing required is to choose the right compiler. Like:
make CC=ppc-linux-gcc

I'm more familiar with scratchbox for cross-compiling, that's what I
use to build for Maemo.

Best regards.

-- 
Felipe Contreras