GPA `improvements'

[Francis J. A. Pinteric]

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On Sat, 9 Nov 2002 14:23:33 +0100
Miguel Coca <e970095@zipi.fi.upm.es> wrote:
 
> However, if you want to help in GPA, you should check out the CVS version
> and work from there (see http://www.gnupg.org/gpa.html for instructions on
> how to get it).
> 
> I'm working on what will be version 0.6, and it's a major rewrite of large
> parts of the program. The GPAPA library has been completely replaced by
> GPGME, which is the standard way to call GnuPG from other programs.
> 
> A few features are not yet ready in GPGME, so they are not available in
> current CVS, but I don't intend to make a release until they are. See:
> 
>         http://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gpa-dev/2002-October/000877.html
> 
> for my latest status report.
> 
> Also, we have moved to use GTK+ 2.0 instead of 1.2.
> 

Ok, I've downloaded your CVS copy and (after much fiddling) got it to compile on my RH 7.3 system. You've already done exactly what I've been trying to do, so I guess I don't need to send in the patches I made to 0.4.3 :-). Well, I only spent about a day on it, and most of that time was getting the "lay of the land" on the code. The new version looks pretty good.

As for compiling the CVS, I had problems. In order to get it to compile (after I ./autogen.sh and ./configure-ed it) I had to define VERSION and PACKAGE_BUGREPORT to some values as well as comment out the inclusion of "stringhelps.h" before it would compile.

Oh, one more thing I had to change. Redhat 7.3 has all the BSD style ushort, ulong, and uchar definitions already defined, so when I compile it, all sorts of warnings are emitted by my compiler (gcc 2.96). I patched the jnlib/types.h as follows to take care of that and all those warnings magically disappeared:

<code>

#ifndef HAVE_USHORT_TYPEDEF
  #undef ushort     /* maybe there is a macro with this name */
  #ifndef __USE_BSD
     typedef unsigned short ushort;
  #endif
  #define HAVE_USHORT_TYPEDEF
#endif

#ifndef HAVE_ULONG_TYPEDEF
  #undef ulong      /* maybe there is a macro with this name */
  #ifndef __USE_BSD
     typedef unsigned long ulong;
  #endif
  #define HAVE_ULONG_TYPEDEF
#endif

</code>

Anyway, after I compiled it, it boots up and looks good. Haven't looked at it in depth, but a cursory look at it uncovers a bug where the signatures are not displayed in the Signatures tab. As I said, I've only just compiled it and I don't know how far you are in the rewrite, if my removal of the `#include "stringhelps.h"' from gpa.h has caused it to go away.

Which begs the question: when you download the cvs, what else besides autogen.sh and configure do you need to do to make it work?

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