Re: GIT version doesn't build anymore

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

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