Problems compiling libipoddevice

[garnie]

I am trying to install banshee so i can get my Nano ipod in use on my linux desktop

but i get a problem installing the latest version of libipoddevice my error is :

[mickywicky]

Hate to post this: I've had the exact same error around the time you posted this last night.
Bit'o googling didn't reveal anything that I could make sense of. Seems to be linked to glib somehow, but then everything else on this system has been working flawlessly for 6 months... (save udev )

Anyone else got this error?
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[mickywicky]

OK I got it to work, but it's dirty:

Tell portage that libipoddevice is really emerged:
echo "dev-libs/libipoddevice-0.3.2" >> /etc/portage/profile/package.provided

then uncompress the sources to a dir of your choice (you can probably just do a tar -zxvf /usr/portage/distfiles/libipoddevice-0.3.2.tar.gz wherever)

cd into libipoddevice-0.3.2/src/
in ipod-device.c replace g_mkdir_with_parents with g_mkdir
save
cd ../
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

emerge banshee will handle the rest.

I think the reason may be an outdated glib. The use of g_mkdir_with_parents was introduced in libipoddevice-0.3.2 only, which is why 0.3.1 compiled without problems (but was useless for the banshee ebuild).
It is a more elegant and correct function to use, so the above should be used with extreme caution.
But it works.
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[garnie]

Perhaps its just me but i fail at this :

in ipod-device.c replace g_mkdir_with_parents with g_mkdir
with this
bash: syntax error near unexpected token `in'

do i need to install a package for this or something ?

[mickywicky]

I meant replace in the actual text file, i.e. open it, and to a find/replace.
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