On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:57 AM H via Users <users@lists.geany.org> wrote:

On 06/20/2023 08:29 PM, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 09:14, H via Users <users@lists.geany.org> wrote:
>> On 06/20/2023 04:10 AM, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
>>> I accidently took us off list, added us back.
>>>
>>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 23:11, Dominic Hopf <dmaphy@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>> So I did a quick try to build Geany 1.38 for EPEL7, right now the problem is that `./configure` already fails with this message:
>>>>
>>>> configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++17 language features is required.
>>>> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X4sTL9 (%build)
>>>> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X4sTL9 (%build)
>>>>
>>> Ok, thats not one that is fixable in a practical sense, Scintilla
>>> versions after the 3.x.x stable versions do require C++17, and the
>>> changes between the old version and the new versions (two major
>>> versions after all) have too many changes to be practical to support
>>> both.
>>>
>>>> I'm afraid this is not possible to build without immense effort unless anyone else has an idea?
>>>> Does one of you guys know if it's possible to install flatpaks on CentOS 7? Probably that could be an idea then?
>>>>
>>> Well, I guess Flatsnaps, dockers or other containerised mechanisms
>>> would maybe allow for a newer C++ compiler to build against a newer
>>> runtime. Docker is used to do the Windows cross compiles and CI now.
>>> Would need to run in the container too so the newer C++ runtime
>>> library was available I guess. But I am no container expert.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>> Lex
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Dominic
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 12:36 PM Lex Trotman <elextr@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 19:10, Dominic Hopf <dmaphy@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> No need to ask in the RedHat Bugzilla at all as I'm reading here as well. ;)
>>>>>> I remember there were issues building Geany 1.38 for CentOS 7, but I don't remember what issues that was in detail, though.
>>>>>> I'll retry as soon as I can and will let you know. Either I can tell you what the issue is or probably there will be an update.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you, if its a dependency thats too olde I guess there won't be
>>>>> much we can do, but its good to know what the problem is.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>> Lex
>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Dominic
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:09 AM Lex Trotman via Users <users@lists.geany.org> wrote:
>>>>>>>> Lex, is there anything I can do if you want to look into this? I would love to have 1.38 - and hopefully 1.39 - available for CentOS 7.
>>>>>>> You could ask on Centos bugzilla what the problem was.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I don't want to sound negative, so lets call it being pragmatic ;-P
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Centos 7 has one year of maintenance updates left, IIUC maintenance
>>>>>>> updates mean security and bugfixes, no new versions, so 1.38 or 1.39
>>>>>>> doesn't seem likely to happen.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We try to keep Geany git working on Ubuntu LTS (that is what Github CI
>>>>>>> uses) but no guarantees on older things and without any info about
>>>>>>> what failed we can't do much.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>>> Lex
>>>>>>>
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>> But does not Red Hat Developer Toolset 10.x support C/C++17? See https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_developer_toolset/12/html-single/user_guide/index#sect-GCC-CPP-Compatibility. Although I myself have an earlier version of the Developer Toolset installed on my own computer, it seems that the latest release, Developer Toolset 12 even supports C/C++20?
> "Red Hat Developer Toolset is a Red Hat offering for developers on the
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform." so is it available for Centos 7,
> and is it supported to build software for the Centos 7 repository?
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
>> If my reading is correct, it would seem the compiler requirement can be met?
Yes, I have been using an earlier version on my CentOS 7 system. CentOS and RHEL are ABI compatible. The same repositories are used for software to be downloaded.
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