Re: Trying to build on Mint 20 ...

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

First - what is the exact command you used?  (configure or meson full 
command line.)  Also, are you building from git or a tarball (if so, 
which version?)

On 10/4/21 13:19, Mike Witt via balsa-list wrote:
> I'm trying to build Balsa on Mint 20. I'm currently stuck on configure 
> telling me:
>
> > checking whether to use an external spell checker... configure enchant
> > checking for  enchant != 1.6.1 ... no
> > configure: error: Package requirements ( enchant != 1.6.1 ) were not 
> > met:
> >
> > No package 'enchant' found
>
> AFAICT I've got and enchant that is not 1.6.1:
>
> > enchant is already the newest version (1.6.0-11.3build1).
> > enchant-2 is already the newest version (2.2.8-1ubuntu0.20.04.1).

I'm on Gentoo and actually have enchant 2.3.0 and see that 2.3.1 is 
available, but 2.2.8 should certainly work.  I have no problem 
configuring with meson, but I can't test now with configure, as I'm 
getting a different strange error I need to track down.

Additional question - where is your build directory?  I create a build 
dir below the root of the repository.  (I'm also building from git, not 
a tarball, but I don't think that should matter, although I hope those 
aren't famous last words.)