Re: [Gretl-devel] GUI build failure with older gtk2 version
On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, Sven Schreiber wrote:
Hi,
I've had a report from a server administrator that building gretl 2016c
failed with respect to some GUI components, related to gtksourceview, when
using gtk2 (--enable-gtk2).
AFAI understand, only recent or even only the latest gtk2 version provides
the directory "completion-providers", but gretl or some underlying component
assumes it is present. The gtk2 (devel) version on that system apparently is
2.8.2.
Here's a verbatim snippet of the error he forwarded me:
textbuf.c:51:79: error:
gtksourceview/completion-providers/words/gtksourcecompletionwords.h: No such
file or directory
Ah, the respective functionality of successive gtksourceview versions
is not well documented, but from grubbing through the code I see that
word completion was new in version 2.10. I've now added a check for
that in gretl's configure script. Gtksourceview 2.8.2 is usable, you
just won't get the option of word completion.
Allin