Re: Building against old libraries

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> OK.  How about the attached patch.  It adds an option to ./configure
> called --enable-anachronistic-dependencies which relaxes the gtk+
> version. 

This looks good to me, except that I would be slightly more
explicit in the text import dialog, adding something like
"...because it was compiled against a version of GTK+ older than
version 2.12."

Ed, does this work for you?  (i.e. is it good enough in principle
and does it actually build and work?)
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