Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> writes: > On 6/26/24 5:03 AM, Sam James wrote: >> Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> Many packages perform automagic dependencies on gdk's backend >>> implementations by checking if the macro is defined and then using the >>> code it unlocks, rather than having a buildsystem option such as >>> -Dwayland=true. >>> >> Doesn't gtk3 need this too? Also, could we have an upstream report >> making them aware of this for gtk4? > > > Yes, gtk3 needs this too (and patches in this series depend on it). > > At https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/37259 there are 6 patches, not > 5 -- I appear to have accidentally excluded the first patch when sending > it to the list, unsure how that happened. It's almost ccompletely > copy/paste from gtk4.
Thanks for clarifying - I was convinced I'd seen you show me it (I probably saw it on the branch) but I didn't think to check the PR. > > As far as reporting this upstream goes, I'm somewhat nervous they will > suggest you should simply build against what you use and require what > you build against. It's not a completely unreasonable suggestion, in > fact it's the one I described as option 4 and Gentoo simply cannot use > it today since it would require new EAPI. I tend to agree. I see this as kind of our fault / a Gentoo-ish problem.
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