Re: GIT version doesn't build anymore

[Peter Bloomfield <Peterbloomfield bellsouth net>]

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.

> 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

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