[Geany-Users] Difficulty installing spellcheck plugin on geany

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Mon Oct 7 13:21:00 UTC 2019


 
Attached is the make output.

Regards Garthur

     On Monday, 7 October 2019, 6:34:40 pm AEDT, Colomban Wendling <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:  
 
 Le 07/10/2019 à 07:36, Garthur via Users a écrit :
> I am a bit rough some times, I didn't save the build error.

Could you try and re-run `make` and give us the output?  Normally it'll
try and re-do what it failed to do, and will likely error-out just the same.

> But I installed aspell separately so I can do command line spell check.
> I wanted spell check in geany because the spell check in abiword is not
> friendly.
> 
> Regards Garthur
> 
> 
> On Monday, 7 October 2019, 8:31:36 am AEDT, Colomban Wendling
> <lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 05/10/2019 à 14:11, Garthur via Users a écrit :
>> Thanks for your help:  Colomban Wendling & Lex Trotman
>>
>> It was the: /usr/lib/pkgconfig/geany.pc file.  I deleted it and ran:
>> PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
>> ./autogen.sh I have done the "make --keep-going"  and "make install",
>> there was one error but it didn't appear to relate to sellingcheck,
>> so I did the install.
> 
> Although it *might* indeed not be related, it's kind of bold to still
> proceed to the installation when the build failed.  Could you paste the
> error here so we can see what that can be?
> 
> 
>> When I restart geany, it doesn't include Spellingcheck in the "Tools
>> > Plugin Manager" menu. Is that normal after doing the plugins
>> install?
>>
>> Regards Garthur
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 7:47 PM Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com
> <mailto:elextr at gmail.com>>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The problem is pkg-config can't find geany.pc. How did you install
>> Geany? What is the output of `pkg-config geany`? If its nothing, then
>> you need to find where the install put the package config file
>> (geany.pc) since it isn't in the default places pkg-config searches
>> on your system. Then you need to follow the advice the error message
>> gave and set the environment variable or specify --prefix and
>> --with-geany-libdir.
>>
>> Cheers Lex
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Sep 2019 at 19:28, Garthur via Users
>> <users at lists.geany.org <mailto:users at lists.geany.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> to Users I have been trying to install the spellcheck plugin, and I
>>> am finding it quite hard. I have got to the point of downloading
>>> the github zip file at: https://github.com/geany/geany-plugins and
>>> running autogen.sh. This fails saying I have version 1.27 but I
>>> have version 1.35. Here are the printouts: (I am running xenialpup
>>> (xenial64_7-5-5 puppylinux)) Difficulty installing spellcheck
>>> plugin on geany
>>>
>>>
> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>
>>>
>> type -a geany
>>> geany is /usr/local/bin/geany
>>>
> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>
>>>
>> /usr/local/bin/geany -V
>>> geany 1.35 (git >= bf5c9ed) (built on 2019-01-31 with GTK 2.24.30,
>>> GLib 2.48.2)
>>>
> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>
>>>
>> ./autogen.sh
>>> You should update your 'aclocal.m4' by running aclocal. autoreconf:
>>> Entering directory `.' autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
>>> autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I build/cache -I build -I
>>> build/bundled -I geanypy/m4 --install autoreconf: configure.ac:
>>> tracing autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force {... ....Not
>>> included........ ...} checking for msgfmt... (cached)
>>> /usr/bin/msgfmt checking for dcgettext... yes checking if msgfmt
>>> accepts -c... yes checking for gmsgfmt... (cached) /usr/bin/msgfmt
>>> checking for xgettext... (cached) /usr/bin/xgettext checking for
>>> catalogs to be installed...  be ca da de el es fr gl it ja kk nl pt
>>> pt_BR ru tr zh_CN checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
>>> checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes checking for
>>> GEANY... no configure: error: Package requirements (geany >= 1.29)
>>> were not met:
>>>
>>> Requested 'geany >= 1.29' but version of Geany is 1.27
>>>
>>> Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
>>> installed software in a non-standard prefix.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, you may set the environment variables GEANY_CFLAGS
>>> and GEANY_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config. See the
>>> pkg-config man page for more details.
>>>
>>>
> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>
>>>
>> uname -a
>>> Linux xenial64-sda1 4.9.58 #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Nov 13 15:54:01 GMT
>>> 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
> /initrd/mnt/dev_save/pool/tmp/geany-plugin-spellcheck_1/github/geany-plugins-master/
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Should I report this as a bug?
>>>
>>> Regards Garthur
> 
>>>
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