On 2016-12-06 08:00 PM, Asif Aaron Amin wrote:
All,
When I try to build the latest geany (version 1.29) from source I get the following configure error:
checking for GTK... no configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.24 glib-2.0 >= 2.32 gio-2.0 >= 2.32 gmodule-no-export-2.0) were not met:
Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.32' but version of GLib is 2.28.8 Requested 'gio-2.0 >= 2.32' but version of GIO is 2.28.8
Is it possible to get past these constraints besides installing the latest glib libraries? I'm currently using version 1.27 and I was able to build from source flawlessly. I feel bad that I'm not using the bleeding edge geany version anymore. Geany is my favorite text editor and I like to get the new goodies from each new release!
You could change `2.32` here and the next line to `2.28.8` and then fix what breaks. I think it's not a lot that requires `2.32` [0].
https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/1.29.0/configure.ac#L73
Would it be possible to relax these constraints in future possibly?
I think it would be a valid Issue[1] to request re-synchronizing the GTK+ and GLib version numbers. If we only check for GTK+ `2.24.0` then we should probably only require GLib `2.27.3` like GTK+ itself (debatable).
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/configure.in?h=2.24.0#n34
Most likely a clean patch/pull request to resolve the mismatch would be accepted.
Regards, Matthew Brush
[0]: https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/314a5c180ee6489248e9f94306a53ab623d681... [1]: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/new