Re: GIT version doesn't build anymore

Hi Peter,

On 2018.07.23 12:57, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Hi Helmut,
> 
> On 07/23/2018 11:19:21 AM Mon, Helmut Jarausch via balsa-list wrote:
>> Hi,
>> my last successful build of the GIT version of Balsa was on  
>> 2018/07/16
>> 
>> But now I encounter problems.
>> 
>> First, in configure.ac it  checks pkg_config enchant-2  which  
>> doesn't exist in Gentoo even though enchant-2.1.2 is installed here.
>> Therefore it checks for  <= enchant-1.6.0 which fails.
> 
> Does Gentoo put enchant-2.pc in a separate devel package? That's the  
> file that pkg-config is failing to find.
Remember, Gentoo builds EVERY package from source, there are no sparate  
-dev or -devel packages.  However it seems that Gentoo has not  
distinguished enchant <2 from >=2 so even for enchant-2, the file is  
enchant.pc.  For me "pkg-config --modversion enchant" returns 2.1.1.

>> Disabling this check in configure.ac it fails lateron with
>> 
>> /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitContextMenuItem.h:64:60:  
>> error: unknown type name 'GtkAction'; did you mean 'AtkAction'?
>>  webkit_context_menu_item_new                               
>> (GtkAction              *action);
>>                                                             ^~~~~~~~~
>>                                                             AtkAction
>> /usr/include/webkitgtk-4.0/webkit2/WebKitContextMenuItem.h:85:61:  
>> error: unknown type name 'GtkAction'
>>  WEBKIT_DEPRECATED_FOR(webkit_context_menu_item_get_gaction)  
>> GtkAction *
>>                                                               
>> ^~~~~~~~~
> 
> Sorry about that--I "improved" a workaround for that issue, and it  
> broke the build. I just reverted the commit--try again.
> 
>> I have webkit-gtk-2.18.6 installed here. Is the patch for this old  
>> version removed?
>> I had no problems with the GIT version of 2018/07/16 with the same  
>> version of webkit-gtk.
>> 
>> Many thanks for a hint,
>> Helmut
> 
> Peter