Another glibc change that nearly got pushed into F16

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Wed Oct 26 14:14:19 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 16:12 +0200, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:06:31AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h:32:2: error: #error "Only <glib.h> can be included directly."
> > 
> > or close variants of that.  I assume this is another manifestation of
> > the same bug being discussed here ... or have the glibc guys managed to
> > break the world in two different ways in the same release?
> 
> You are confusing glibc with glib here, the above very much looks like
> a glib bug, nothing to do with glibc.
> 

Its not a bug, just a change. Including individual glib headers has been
discouraged for a long time. In GLib 2.31, it has been outlawed.



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