On Tue, 2014-04-22 at 10:05 -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:35 AM, Arun Raghavan <arun at accosted.net> wrote:
> > g_type_init() is need no longer be called explicitly from glib 2.36
> > onwards.
> > ---
> > src/modules/gconf/gconf-helper.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/src/modules/gconf/gconf-helper.c b/src/modules/gconf/gconf-helper.c
> > index fbd8cfd..3c1180c 100644
> > --- a/src/modules/gconf/gconf-helper.c
> > +++ b/src/modules/gconf/gconf-helper.c
> > @@ -99,7 +99,9 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
> > GConfClient *client;
> > GSList *modules, *m;
> >
> > +#if !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2,36,0)
> > g_type_init();
> > +#endif
> >
> > if (!(client = gconf_client_get_default()))
> > goto fail;
>
> What happens if pulseaudio is compiled against 2.36+ but is run
> against an older version of glib?
Supposedly the code will not work, because the GLib type system is not
initialized.
> This could happen when using packages compiled on another distro/release.
Installing packages from another distro is not expected to work anyway.
--
Tanu
