[Geany-Users] Relaxing geany package requirements

[Asif Aaron Amin]

All,

Thanks for the quick responses! I regenerated the configure script as
suggested:

gtk_modules="$gtk_package >= $gtk_min_version glib-2.0 >= 2.28"
gtk_modules_private="gio-2.0 >= 2.28 gmodule-no-export-2.0"

And it looks like most of this compiled!

It failed here however because G_TYPE_KEY_FILE was not defined:
  CC     libgeany_la-geanyobject.lo


I tried hacking up a quick solution by putting this at the top of
geanyobject.cc:

#include <glib-object.h>
#define G_TYPE_KEY_FILE (g_key_file_get_type ())

but this caused a linker failure.

libgeany sounds like a pretty important library so there's probably not a
way for me to easily get around this.



On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:

> 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/314a5c180ee6489248e9f9
> 4306a53ab623d68178#diff-67e997bcfdac55191033d57a16d1408aR77
> [1]: https://github.com/geany/geany/issues/new
>
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