can't compile on gentoo

[Sergey Klimov]

libtool: compile: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../common -pthread -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -pthread -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -DG_DISABLE_DEPRECATED -march=core2 -O2 -pipe -Wall -Werror -lm -MT libgiobamf_la-gapplaunchhandlerdbus.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgiobamf_la-gapplaunchhandlerdbus.Tpo -c gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libgiobamf_la-gapplaunchhandlerdbus.o
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c:36: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c: In function ‘g_app_launch_handler_bamf_register_type’:
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c:46: error: ‘launch_handler_iface_init’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c:46: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c:46: error: for each function it appears in.)
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c:46: error: ‘G_TYPE_DESKTOP_APP_INFO_LAUNCH_HANDLER’ undeclared (first use in this function)
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c: At top level:
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c:99: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c:138: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c: In function ‘g_app_launch_handler_bamf_register’:
gapplaunchhandlerdbus.c:147: error: ‘G_DESKTOP_APP_INFO_LAUNCH_HANDLER_EXTENSION_POINT_NAME’ undeclared (first use in this function)

[Jason Smith (jassmith)]

You need a patched GIO to compile the gio module

[Neil J. Patel (njpatel)]

Marking as invalid as you need a patched gio. The patch is available at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606960 .

[Christoph Mende (cmende)]

The upstream bug has been resolved as fixed in 2.23 and if I understand it correctly, the same feature that's used by bamf is now implemented via dbus signals. Would it be possible to use those instead?
Patching GIO means most distributions (read: any other than ubuntu and arch via the AUR maybe) will never ship bamf.

[Christoph Mende (cmende)]

Reopening since glib upstream says this will never be included, which means hardly any distribution will ever ship bamf.

[Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer)]

This is an old bug, if someone wishes to add more information on any problems compiling on gentoo please update the bug! Marking as incomplete to leave some time.

[Jackal (turboknot13)]

Not sure if this is related, but compiling BAMF 0.5.0 it fails with the following
configure: error: You need to install python-libxslt1 and python-libxml2

tried dev-libs/libxslt & dev-libs/libxml2 and with lxml