On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 09:14, H via Users <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/20/2023 04:10 AM, Lex Trotman via Users wrote: > > I accidently took us off list, added us back. > > > > On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 23:11, Dominic Hopf <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So I did a quick try to build Geany 1.38 for EPEL7, right now the problem > >> is that `./configure` already fails with this message: > >> > >> configure: error: *** A compiler with support for C++17 language features > >> is required. > >> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X4sTL9 (%build) > >> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.X4sTL9 (%build) > >> > > Ok, thats not one that is fixable in a practical sense, Scintilla > > versions after the 3.x.x stable versions do require C++17, and the > > changes between the old version and the new versions (two major > > versions after all) have too many changes to be practical to support > > both. > > > >> I'm afraid this is not possible to build without immense effort unless > >> anyone else has an idea? > >> Does one of you guys know if it's possible to install flatpaks on CentOS > >> 7? Probably that could be an idea then? > >> > > Well, I guess Flatsnaps, dockers or other containerised mechanisms > > would maybe allow for a newer C++ compiler to build against a newer > > runtime. Docker is used to do the Windows cross compiles and CI now. > > Would need to run in the container too so the newer C++ runtime > > library was available I guess. But I am no container expert. > > > > Cheers > > Lex > > > >> Regards, > >> Dominic > >> > >> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 12:36 PM Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> On Mon, 19 Jun 2023 at 19:10, Dominic Hopf <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>> No need to ask in the RedHat Bugzilla at all as I'm reading here as > >>>> well. ;) > >>>> I remember there were issues building Geany 1.38 for CentOS 7, but I > >>>> don't remember what issues that was in detail, though. > >>>> I'll retry as soon as I can and will let you know. Either I can tell you > >>>> what the issue is or probably there will be an update. > >>>> > >>> Thank you, if its a dependency thats too olde I guess there won't be > >>> much we can do, but its good to know what the problem is. > >>> > >>> Cheers > >>> Lex > >>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Dominic > >>>> > >>>> On Mon, Jun 19, 2023 at 3:09 AM Lex Trotman via Users > >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>>>> Lex, is there anything I can do if you want to look into this? I would > >>>>>> love to have 1.38 - and hopefully 1.39 - available for CentOS 7. > >>>>> You could ask on Centos bugzilla what the problem was. > >>>>> > >>>>> I don't want to sound negative, so lets call it being pragmatic ;-P > >>>>> > >>>>> Centos 7 has one year of maintenance updates left, IIUC maintenance > >>>>> updates mean security and bugfixes, no new versions, so 1.38 or 1.39 > >>>>> doesn't seem likely to happen. > >>>>> > >>>>> We try to keep Geany git working on Ubuntu LTS (that is what Github CI > >>>>> uses) but no guarantees on older things and without any info about > >>>>> what failed we can't do much. > >>>>> > >>>>> Cheers > >>>>> Lex > >>>>> > >>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>> Users mailing list -- [email protected] > >>>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > >>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>> Users mailing list -- [email protected] > >>>>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > But does not Red Hat Developer Toolset 10.x support C/C++17? See > https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_developer_toolset/12/html-single/user_guide/index#sect-GCC-CPP-Compatibility. > Although I myself have an earlier version of the Developer Toolset installed > on my own computer, it seems that the latest release, Developer Toolset 12 > even supports C/C++20?
"Red Hat Developer Toolset is a Red Hat offering for developers on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform." so is it available for Centos 7, and is it supported to build software for the Centos 7 repository? Cheers Lex > > If my reading is correct, it would seem the compiler requirement can be met? > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
