[Geany-Users] Difficulty installing spellcheck plugin on geany

[Lex Trotman]

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> wrote:
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> 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))
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> /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:
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> Requested 'geany >= 1.29' but version of Geany is 1.27
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> 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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