Re: [be] compile issues

[Lance W. Haverkamp]

OK brother, sorry to give you more work--that was not my intent.  But as you 
said, apparently it's time to progress.


Christ's blessings,
Lance





On 01/25/2013 11:45 AM, Teus Benschop wrote:
> Hi Lance,
> 
> I tried to compile gtkhtml3 on Suse 12.2, but did not succeed.
> 
> Threre is also the issue that libgtkhtml is being phased out.
> https://live.gnome.org/RoadMap/GtkHtml
> 
> Therefore it is time to update bibledit-gtk so that it no longer depends on 
> software that is going to be phased out.
> 
> I'll try to make it use libgtkhtml4 in the meantime before porting it to 
> WebKit.
> 
> Teus.
> 
> 
> On 01/23/2013 06:44 AM, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm an end-user, not a developer.  Trying to install Bibledit on something 
>> more current & reliable than Debian or Ubuntu have been lately.
>>
>> There seems to be no package for Bibledit in most of the Distributions that 
>> have worked well for me (Arch or Suse); so I'm trying to compile it.  Other 
>> than having very little idea of what I'm doing, I'm getting the following 
>> error from OpenSuse:
>> configure: error: libgtkhtml3 development version >= 3.8.0 is needed.
>>
>> I installed libgtkhtml-dev, but the current versions are well into 4.x, not 
>> 3.x.  Is that my problem, is the source code calling for an older version?  
>> If so, I suspect this was the same problem I was having with Arch Linux last 
>> week.
>>
>>
>> If version 4.4.x will work, how do we get the compiler to stop insisting on 
>> the older "3" version?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lance
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/15/2013 12:41 PM, Teus Benschop wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> If the libgtkhtml3 library is not available in the Linux distribution, the 
>>> only option is to try to compile this library from source. The sources are 
>>> available from http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gtkhtml/. Hope all 
>>> goes well, and you'll happily be running bibledit-gtk soon.
>>>
>>> Teus.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 01/15/2013 08:21 PM, Lance W. Haverkamp wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to move from an Ubuntu system to an Arch based system 
>>>> (Manjaro).  Manjaro seems faster & more stable, with very little extra 
>>>> assistance needed.
>>>>
>>>> Problem is there are no Bibledit binaries there, but more seriously, I 
>>>> can't seem to compile it as libgtkhtml3 apparently does not exist in Arch.
>>>>
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
> 
> 

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