[Geany-Users] Relaxing geany package requirements

[Matthew Brush]

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/314a5c180ee6489248e9f94306a53ab623d68178#diff-67e997bcfdac55191033d57a16d1408aR77
[1]: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/new