Re: GIT version doesn't build anymore

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

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