[Geany-Users] Build on Debian Buster

[Lex Trotman]

On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 20:05, ken at shail.co.uk <ken at shail.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I have used the Git repository source for all versions 1.34 thro 1.37

Ok, its best to be sure.

> I have also tried the 1.34 tarball that had installed OK before on 32
> bit Debian 8.
> Same result on all.

Did you do `make clean` or similar each time you checked out a
different version and also ran at least configure, or preferably
autogen.sh again each time?

I am pretty sure some of the Geany devs use Debian (version unknown)
and so it should work fine, but remnants from previous builds will
definitely confuse the world.

Cheers
Lex

> The Debian repository .deb version works OK.
> Once I can build I want to re-apply the changes that I made in my copy
> of 1.34 search.c  to save having to close and re-open the search dialog
> for every new search.

PS Why do you need to close the dialog each search?

> Cheers and thanks for your reply.
> Ken
>
> On 13/12/2020 22:47, Lex Trotman wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 23:21, ken at shail.co.uk <ken at shail.co.uk> wrote:
> >> I can't build on Debian 10 amd64.
> >> The Debian repository version works fine but I need to add some
> >> modifications that I made to an earlier 32 bit version.
> >> Using unmodified source, configure runs fine whichever version (1.34 to
> >> 1.37) I try,  but in make I get
> >> CC      main/args.lo
> >> gcc: error: 1: No such file or directory
> >> make: *** [makefile:875: main/args.lo] Error 1
> >> Leaving directory '<my path>/Downloads/geany-1-37.1'
> > Which source from where?  Tarball from Debian? Tarball from Geany.org?
> > Git repository source?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Lex
> >
> >> Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> >> Ken
> >>
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