build failure: implicit declaration of function 'g_clear_pointer'

[Pim Vullers]

When trying to build indicator-power I get the following error:
...
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/portage/sys-power/indicator-power-9999/work/indicator-power-9999_build/src'
  CC libpower_la-dbus-listener.lo
  CC libpower_la-device.lo
  CC libpower_la-indicator-power.lo
/tmp/portage/sys-power/indicator-power-9999/work/indicator-power-9999/src/device.c: In function 'indicator_power_device_finalize':
/tmp/portage/sys-power/indicator-power-9999/work/indicator-power-9999/src/device.c:147:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'g_clear_pointer' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
make[2]: *** [libpower_la-device.lo] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/sys-power/indicator-power-9999/work/indicator-power-9999_build/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/sys-power/indicator-power-9999/work/indicator-power-9999_build'
make: *** [all] Error 2

This is indicator-power from trunk on Gentoo Linux. Full build log attached.

[Pim Vullers (pimvullers)]

This seems to be resolved with a newer glib. In that case the configure script should check for this (I had glib 2.32.4 now 2.33.6).

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

that's bug #1023533