Re: GIT version doesn't build anymore

On 2018.07.24 09:04, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> Jack and Helmut:
> 
> On 07/23/2018 04:16:48 PM Mon, Jack via balsa-list wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Configure and meson.build have been changed in master so that, when  
> pkg-config fails to find enchant-2.pc, it tries "enchant != 1.6.1"  
> instead of "enchant <= 1.6.0". It's a bit obscure (!) but should work  
> both with distros that provide enchant-2.pc and those like Gentoo  
> that name it enchant.pc.

Writing this from a new meson/ninja build with webkit-gtk 2.20.3, with  
no apparent problems, but only minimal testing so far.  At some point,  
I'll try configuring with internal spell check - I assume that will  
test the new enchant checking.

Jack