Request for testing (KNetworkManager 0.2.1)

[Helmut Schaa]

Am Sa 20 Okt 2007 12:48:37 CEST schrieb Dirk Mueller <mueller at kde.org>:

> On Thursday 18 October 2007, Helmut Schaa wrote:
>
>> Very nice, thanks :)
>> I dont't know why the patched version of libnl got used
>
> The reason is that the particular function call that avoids a 2kb per second
> memory leak got renamed with no backward compatibility between 1.0pre5 and
> 1.0pre6 of libnl. As 1.0pre5 seemed to be in much wider use than 1.0pre6
> (although I have switched SUSE factory to 1.0pre6 now), I've preferred the
> old name of the function, but provided a backward hack in the suse package.

Thanks Dirk.

> there is no easy way to #ifdef this based on the libnl version installed
> (given that libnl doesn't export its version in any of the include files),
> but it would certainly be the best option to either add a configure check or
> switch to the pre6 api.

Does somebody have any objections against relying on libnl-1.0pre6? If  
not I would prefer to simply switch to pre6.

Regards,
Helmut