Details of old GNOME 2 gnome-doc-utils:
Migrating your documentation to gnome-doc-utils
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeDocUtils/MigrationHowTo
First part is to stop using gnome-doc-utils to build and install the
documentation. Also since updating the OMF catalog was only needed for
GNOME 2 yelp, use of scrollkeeper is completely removed too.
Closes!24 - Port to GNOME 3 yelp-tools documentation infrastructure
These lines in the final configuration report from ./configure were left
behind [1] when determination of the underlying definitions were remove.
So they no longer report 'yes' or 'no' like the other lines in the file
configuration report.
Need partition table re-read workaround? :
Supports large sector sizes (> 512 bytes)? :
Remove them now.
[1] 8df975c7d1
Increase minimum required libparted to 2.2 (!22)
Closes!22 - Increase minimums to libparted 2.2 and glibmm 2.32
gdk_spawn_command_line_on_screen() is not present in Gtk3. The
documentation from Gtkmm 2.24 states [1]:
gdk_spawn_command_line_on_screen has been deprecated since version
2.24 and should not be used in newly-written code. This function is
being removed in 3.0. Use either g_spawn_command_line_sync(),
g_spawn_command_line_async() or GdkAppLaunchContext instead.
g_spawn_command_line_sync() and g_spawn_command_line_async() are screen
/ display agnostic, as such we would loose functionality. There is a
workaround, which involves setting the DISPLAY environment variable [2],
but it's a weak solution (and I don't know if it works on backends
other than X11).
GdkAppLaunchContext is an implementation of GIO's GAppLaunchContext that
handles launching an application in a graphical context [3]. Therefore
use GdkAppLaunchContext and GIO's GAppInfo.
GdkAppLaunchContext was introduced in Gtk2 version 2.14. The C++
wrapper Gdk::AppLaunchContext was introduced only in Gtkmm3 version 3.4
[4]. Bump the minimum required version of Gtkmm to 3.4.0 for this
requirement.
GAppInfo was introduced in GLib version 2.16. The C++ wrapper
Gio::AppInfo was introduced in Giomm version 2.16. Note that the
minimum required version for glibmm is already 2.32.
[1] GDK 2 Reference Manual, GdkScreen, gdk_spawn_on_screen()
https://developer.gnome.org/gdk2/2.24/GdkScreen.html#gdk-spawn-on-screen
[2] Migrating from GTK+ 2.x to GTK+ 3 - "Use GIO for launching applications"
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-migrating-2-to-3.html#id-1.6.3.3.7
[3] GDK 3 Reference Manual - "Application launching"
https://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/stable/gdk3-Application-launching.html
[4] Gtkmm 3.4 Gdk::AppLaunchContext Class Reference, Detailed Description
https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.4/classGdk_1_1AppLaunchContext.html#detailsCloses#7 - Port to Gtk3
Use of Glib::thread_init() was deprecated in glibmm 2.32 [1]. The
oldest supported distributions have these versions:
Debian 8 glibmm 2.42.0
RHEL / CentOS 7 glibmm 2.56.0
SLES 12 glibmm 2.38.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS glibmm 2.39.93
Checking further the glibmm 2.32 reference manual says this about
Glib::thread_init() [2]:
Initializes the GLib thread system.
Deprecated:
Calling thread_init() is no longer necessary and no longer has any
effect.
However only some of the glibmm example programs had Glib::thread_init()
removed, others had it replaced by Glib::init() [3]. Again the glibmm
2.32 reference manual says this about Glib::init() [4]:
Initialize glibmm.
You may call this more than once. You do not need to call this if
you are using Glib::MainLoop or Gtk::Main, because they call it for
you.
GParted does call Gtk::Main and test_PipeCapture does call
Glib::MainLoop. Therefore just raise the minimum version to glibmm 2.32
and remove both calls to Glib::thread_init().
[1] Glibmm 2.32 NEWS file
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glibmm/blob/2.32.0/NEWS#L207
[2] glibmm 2.32, glibmm: Glib Namespace Reference, Glib::thread_init()
https://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/2.32/namespaceGlib.html#ab26d01c776801f1fff00753e97af4fc7
[3] glibmm commit "Avoid use of deprecates API in tests and examples."
3e0fbb22c0
[4] glibmm 2.32, glibmm: Glib Namespace Reference, Glib::init()
https://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/2.32/namespaceGlib.html#ac90aee10d0b90e3d8a96a86b5394f87bCloses!22 - Increase minimums to libparted 2.2 and glibmm 2.32
Raise the minimum required version of GNU Parted from 1.7.1 to 2.2,
released 2010-02-16 [1][2]. The oldest supported distributions, also
with gtkmm >= 2.24, since commit [3], are:
Debian 8 parted 3.2
RHEL / CentOS 7 parted 3.1
SLES 12 parted 3.1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS parted 2.3
Raising the minimum required version allows removal of optional code
associated with these definitions:
* USE_LIBPARTED_LARGE_SECTOR_SUPPORT
Fallback code reporting ignored device with logical sector size
other than 512 bytes.
* ENABLE_PT_REREAD_WORKAROUND
Fallback code re-attempting to inform the kernel of partition
changes.
[1] GNU Parted 2.2 release announcement
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2010-02/msg00016.html
[2] NEWS file from GNU Parted 2.2
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/parted.git/tree/NEWS?h=v2.2
[3] 8b42bab1ee
modern-gtk2: Require Gtkmm version 2.24 (!17)
Closes!22 - Increase minimums to libparted 2.2 and glibmm 2.32
- Bugzilla has disabled reporting of new bugs.
- Existing Bugzilla bug reports permit new comments only.
- New bugs are to be created on GitLab issues.
Reference:
[GitLab] IMPORTANT: Mass migration plan
https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2018-March/msg00023.htmlCloses!11 - Update bugzilla references
Increase the minimum required version of gtkmm to 2.16.0, thus allowing
removal of HAVE_GTK_SHOW_URI autoconf definition and associated fallback
code.
Bug 794253 - Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 and raise minimum required
versions to glibmm 2.14.0 and gtkmm 2.16.0
Increase the minimum required version of gtkmm to 2.11.1, thus allowing
removal of:
* HAVE_SET_DEFAULT_ICON_NAME autoconf definition and associated
optional code.
* INSTALL_PIXMAPS_DIR automake conditional and associated make
instructions.
This is reversing these 3 commits, except for the higher minimum gtkmm
version:
1) a042107883
Only use Gtk::Window::set_default_icon_name method when available (#695279)
2) b09d6035cd
Add fallback method for specifying GParted icon (#695279)
3) d6baac2546
Only install fallback icon when required (#695279)
Bug 794253 - Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 and raise minimum required
versions to glibmm 2.14.0 and gtkmm 2.16.0
Increase the minimum required version of glibmm to 2.14.0, thus allowing
removal of the HAVE_GLIB_REGEX autoconf definition and associated
conditional code. This is reversing commit, except for the new glibmm
minimum check:
456932846b
Implement fallback if Glib::Regex class is missing (#695279)
Bug 794253 - Desupport RHEL / CentOS 5 and raise minimum required
versions to glibmm 2.14.0 and gtkmm 2.16.0
Scrollkeeper and the associated OMF catalog files are used by the
GNOME 2 version of yelp to display the GParted help manual. To see how
this works try the following command:
yelp ghelp:gparted
GNOME version 3 and higher yelp do not require scrollkeeper or the OMF
catalog files to properly display the GParted help manual. And in fact
GNOME 3 deprecated the GNOME 2 method of building and installing GNOME
help documents altogether; including use of GNOME_DOC_INIT autoconf
macro, the gnome-doc-utils package and use of scrollkeeper.
[GNOME 3] GNOME Goal: Port To New Documentation Infrastructure
https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/NewDocumentationInfrastructure
Further, the next release of Debian, Debian 10 (Buster), will be
removing the scrollkeeper / rarian package.
rarian: Don't release with Buster
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885657
GParted is still a GNOME 2 app using GNOME 2 documentation build system
using autoconf GNOME_DOC_INIT macro.
[GNOME 2] Migrating your documentation to gnome-doc-utils
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GnomeDocUtils/MigrationHowTo
This is needed to build GParted documentation on still supported GNOME 2
distributions RHEL / CentOS 6. So avoid requiring deprecated
scrollkeeper on GNOME 3 by automatically disabling scrollkeeper database
updates when the scrollkeeper-update command is not available.
Executable | Configure option used | Use scrollkeeper
scrollkeeper-update | on command line | when building help
exists? | | for GParted?
--------------------+------------------------+-------------------
Yes | <none> | Yes
Yes | --enable-scrollkeeper | Yes
Yes | --disable-scrollkeeper | No
| |
No | <any> | No
Note that because GParted is still using the GNOME 2 documentation build
system it still builds and installs OMF files. It is just that they are
not required with GNOME 3 yelp and this commit automatically disables
updating the scrollkeeper database when the scrollkeeper-update command
is not available.
Bug 743318 - configure script missing check for scrollkeeper dependency
GParted fails to display when run under Wayland [1][2][3]. This is
because by intentional design Wayland doesn't allow applications with
root privileges access to the display [4].
As an interim workaround make the gparted shell wrapper use xhost to
grant root access to the X11 server if root doesn't already have access,
but only when configured. Granting root access must be explicitly
enabled when building GParted like this:
./configure --enable-xhost-root
It defaults to disabled. When gpartedbin binary ends the shell wrapper
revokes root access only if it granted such access.
[1] GNOME Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776437
[2] Ubuntu Bug 1652282 - GParted does not work in GNOME on Wayland
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/1652282
[3] Fedora Bug 1397103 - gparted not working under Wayland
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1397103
[4] Common Fedora 25 bugs
Running graphical apps with root privileges (e.g. gparted) does not
work on Wayland
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F25_bugs#wayland-root-apps
Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
On CentOS 6 with polkit version 0.96 pkexec fails to execute gparted
shell wrapper as root like this:
$ env | grep DISPLAY
DISPLAY=:0.0
$ sh -x /usr/local/bin/gparted
...
+ pkexec /usr/local/bin/gparted
(gpartedbin:8011): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
This is because polkit didn't support setting the DISPLAY environment
variable to allow execution of X11 applications until the introduction
of the allow_gui annotation by this commit in polkit 0.102:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/polkit/commit/?id=7850d27017fed1834268a852350ae85381fbb110
Bug 38769 - pkexec: Support running X11 apps
Make configure only use pkexec version 0.102 or higher as the privilege
escalation program. Otherwise configure falls back to checking for the
other privilege escalation programs as it did before.
Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
Only install the GParted polkit action file when pkexec is being used as
the root privilege escalation program.
Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
An action file is always needed with polkit to describe the privileged
actions that are available to the subject (client program). For GParted
the only available action is to run the gparted shell script as root.
Note that the polkit action file will be installed into location
$(prefix)/share/polkit-1/actions. This is required by the GNU Coding
Standards [1] and to prevent 'make distcheck' from failing [2]. However
polkit only uses /usr/share/polkit-1/actions for it's action files [3].
This dilemma was discussed in this Bugzilla bug 776437 and on the
general Automake discussion email list [4]. The solution is to simply
document in the README file that a manual additional installation step
may be required.
The action file is marked as translatable with the underscore (_) of the
_description and _message tags identifying the string to be translated.
Use of INTLTOOL_POLICY_RULE in Makefile.am to merge translations into
the polkit action file necessitates increasing the minimum version of
intltool to 0.36.0 where it was first introduced in intltool.m4. This
will prevent GParted building on RedHat/CentOS 5 which only has intltool
0.35.0. But that doesn't matter because RedHat/CentOS 5 reached end of
life on 31st March 2017.
[1] GNU Coding Standards, 7.2.5 Variables for Installation Directories
https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.html#Directory-Variables
[2] Automake Manual, 27.10 Installing to Hard-Coded Locations
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Hard_002dCoded-Install-Paths
"My package needs to populate the installation directory of another
package at install-time. I can easily compute that installation
directory in configure, but if I install files therein,
'make distcheck' fails. How else should I do?"
[3] polkit(8), Declaring Actions
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html#polkit-declaring-actions
"A mechanism need to declare a set of actions in order to use
polkit. Actions correspond to operations that clients can request
the mechanism to carry out and are defined in XML files that the
mechanism installs into the /usr/share/polkit-1/actions directory."
[4] Not installing to hard-coded locations vs polkit's fixed location
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake/2017-08/msg00015.html
Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
Many of the distributions (confirmed for Arch Linux, Debian, Fedora,
OpenSUSE, RedHat/CentOS and Ubuntu but likely many others too) are now
using polkit as the mechanism to authorise privileged actions, including
using it to authorise GParted to run as root in their packages of
GParted. Therefore make the GParted configure script check for the
pkexec command.
Use pkexec with the --disable-internal-agent option when available,
preventing pkexec using it's own textual authentication agent. When
running GParted from a desktop icon or menu there is no terminal with
which to interact with the textual authentication agent to it can't be
used. The desktop's graphical agent must be running. This matches how
some distributions already use polkit in their own packages of GParted.
Required actions file will be added in the next commit.
polkit(8)
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html
pkexec(1)
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/pkexec.1.html
Bug 776437 - GParted fails to run as root under Wayland
Configuring GParted on a machine with automake >= 1.14 produces this
warning:
$ ./autogen.sh
...
lib/gtest/Makefile.am:58: warning: source file 'src/gtest-all.cc' is in a subdirectory,
lib/gtest/Makefile.am:58: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
automake: warning: possible forward-incompatibility.
automake: At least a source file is in a subdirectory, but the 'subdir-objects'
automake: automake option hasn't been enabled. For now, the corresponding output
automake: object file(s) will be placed in the top-level directory. However,
automake: this behaviour will change in future Automake versions: they will
automake: unconditionally cause object files to be placed in the same subdirectory
automake: of the corresponding sources.
automake: You are advised to start using 'subdir-objects' option throughout your
automake: project, to avoid future incompatibilities.
lib/gtest/Makefile.am:60: warning: source file 'src/gtest_main.cc' is in a subdirectory,
lib/gtest/Makefile.am:60: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
lib/gtest/Makefile.am: installing './depcomp'
tests/Makefile.am:22: warning: source file '../src/BlockSpecial.cc' is in a subdirectory,
tests/Makefile.am:22: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
tests/Makefile.am:23: warning: source file '../src/PipeCapture.cc' is in a subdirectory,
tests/Makefile.am:23: but option 'subdir-objects' is disabled
...
From the automake 1.14 NEWS file:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/automake.git/tree/NEWS?h=v1.14#n125
"The next major Automake version (2.0) will unconditionally activate
the 'subdir-objects' option. In order to smooth out the transition,
we now give a warning (in the category 'unsupported') whenever a
source file is present in a subdirectory but the 'subdir-object' is
not enabled. For example, the following usage will trigger such a
warning:
bin_PROGRAMS = sub/foo
sub_foo_SOURCES = sub/main.c sub/bar.c
"
Set the subdir-objects automake option, silencing the warning.
Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
So far only includes tests of the construction of BlockSpecial objects
and the interaction with the internal cache used to reduce the number of
stat(2) calls. Tests have been designed to be runable by non-root users
and assume as little as possible about the environment by discovering
used block device names and symbolic link name.
Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
Now 'make check' will additionally build and run the test suites in the
./tests directory. Add initial always successful dummy test suite.
This is done using Automake support for testing.
Automake Manual, 15 Support for test suites
https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/automake.html#Tests
./tests/Makefile.am takes some influence from the same file in the
minimal-gtest-autotools template project.
654848ec01/tests/Makefile.am
Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
This closely follows the minimal-gtest-autotools template project.
https://github.com/octol/minimal-gtest-autotools
Now 'make check' will additionally build the Google Test C++ test
framework libraries.
Bug 781978 - Add Google Test C++ test framework
As with glibmm [1] the latest versions of libsigc++ also uses ISO C++
2011 features. The NEWS file [2] says:
2.5.1 (unstable):
* Use (and require) C++11
(Kjell Ahlstedt)
* Using C++11 lambda functions to create sigc::slots:
Avoid the need for SIGC_FUNCTORS_DEDUCE_RESULT_TYPE_WITH_DECLTYPE.
(Kjell Ahlstedt)
Without enabling C++11 compiler features, compilation of GParted with
libsigc++ 2.5.1 and later fails with errors such as theses:
/usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/trackable.h:40:3: warning: identifier 'noexcept' is a keyword in C++11 [-Wc++0x-compat]
trackable_callback(void* data, func_destroy_notify func) noexcept
^
[1] d6d7cb2bbf
Enable C++11 compilation when using glibmm 2.45.40 and later (#756035)
[2] libsigc++ 2.5.1 NEWS file
https://git.gnome.org/browse/libsigcplusplus/tree/NEWS?h=2.5.1
Bug 758545 - gparted-0.24.0 fails to build with gnome 3.18 mm packages
(on Gentoo)
Previously the autoconf check for Gtk::Window::set_default_icon_name()
method was a compile test because the documentation reported the method
was available in gtkmm from 2.6 [1], however it wasn't available on
RHEL / CentOS 5.x with gtkmm 2.10.
Then commit [2] added detection and enabling of C++11 compilation, but
after the above autoconf check. So on Fedora 23 the compiler based
autoconf check for set_default_icon_name() method failed because C++11
compilation had not yet been enabled:
> checking for Gtk::Window::set_default_icon_name method... no
checking for gtk_show_uri function... yes
checking for Gtk::MessageDialog::get_message_area() method... yes
> checking for glibmm >= 2.45.40 which requires C++11 compilation... yes
> checking whether g++ supports C++11 features by default... no
> checking whether g++ supports C++11 features with -std=gnu++11... yes
The gtkmm source code reveals that set_default_icon_name() method was
only added in gtkmm 2.11.1 [3] so switch to a PKG_CHECK_EXISTS for this
version of gtkmm.
[1] gtkmm GTK::Window Class Reference
https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/3.6/classGtk_1_1Window.html#a533d03e9b92d8ccd142ab3a44005cae4
[2] Enable C++11 compilation when using glibmm 2.45.40 and later (#756035)
d6d7cb2bbf
[3] gtkmm NEWS file
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm/tree/NEWS?h=gtkmm-2.14.0#n565
Bug 762184 - Autoconf check for C++11 comes after compile test for
Gtk::Window::set_default_icon_name()
Debian has deprecated the use of bzip2 for tarballs since dpkg-1.17.7,
released 2014-04-21. See:
https://lintian.debian.org/tags/uses-deprecated-compression-for-data-tarball.html
The choices going forward were to use gzip for maximum compatibility and
speed, or to use xz for maximum compression.
Since we strive for backwards compatibility, gzip was chosen.
Bug 760099 - Revert tarball compression to gzip
