Hi Andy,

From a fresh git clone + the 3 debian patches, I get the following error [below].

	[but yesterday i succeeded compiling the debian tree patched with your 
	 suggested 2 revname ??]

Cheers,
David


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the 3 debian patches @

	http://patch-tracker.debian.org/package/guile-gnome-platform/2.16.1-4

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few installed lib info:

	ii  libgtk2.0-0                         	2.20.1-1  
	ii  libglib2.0-0                       	2.24.1-1 
	ii  libgnome2-0                   	2.30.0-1     
	ii  libgnomeui-0           		2.24.3-1


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patching 'trace'

david@rascar:/usr/local/src/guile-gnome 100 $ ./patch-guile-gnome-git-with-debian-patches 
patching file glib/test-suite/Makefile.am
patching file gtk/gnome/gw/gtk-support.c
patching file gtk/gnome/gw/gtk-support.h
patching file gtk/gnome/overrides/gtk.defs
patching file gtk/gnome/gw/Makefile.am
david@rascar:/usr/local/src/guile-gnome 101 $ 


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error output

...
mv -f .deps/libgw_guile_gnome_gtk_la-gtk-support.Tpo .deps/libgw_guile_gnome_gtk_la-gtk-support.Plo
/bin/sh ../../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../..    -I../../../glib/gnome/gobject -I../../../glib/gnome/gobject -I. -I. -Wall -Werror -g -I/usr/include/guile-cairo -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12   -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include    -std=gnu99    -g -O2 -MT libgw_guile_gnome_gtk_la-guile-gnome-gw-gtk.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgw_guile_gnome_gtk_la-guile-gnome-gw-gtk.Tpo -c -o libgw_guile_gnome_gtk_la-guile-gnome-gw-gtk.lo `test -f 'guile-gnome-gw-gtk.c' || echo './'`guile-gnome-gw-gtk.c
libtool: compile:  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../.. -I../../../glib/gnome/gobject -I../../../glib/gnome/gobject -I. -I. -Wall -Werror -g -I/usr/include/guile-cairo -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -MT libgw_guile_gnome_gtk_la-guile-gnome-gw-gtk.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libgw_guile_gnome_gtk_la-guile-gnome-gw-gtk.Tpo -c guile-gnome-gw-gtk.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libgw_guile_gnome_gtk_la-guile-gnome-gw-gtk.o
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
guile-gnome-gw-gtk.c: In function 'gw__tmp6246_gtk_recent_info_get_application_info_wrapper':
guile-gnome-gw-gtk.c:27337: error: passing argument 3 of 'gtk_recent_info_get_application_info' from incompatible pointer type
/usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkrecentmanager.h:187: note: expected 'const gchar **' but argument is of type 'char **'
make[5]: *** [libgw_guile_gnome_gtk_la-guile-gnome-gw-gtk.lo] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-gnome/guile-gnome-platform/gtk/gnome/gw'
make[4]: *** [all] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/guile-gnome/guile-gnome-platform/gtk/gnome/gw'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1