Also, you did not come back to my point on installing a flatpak instead. If
it was possible for you to follow instructions like e.g. these ones that
would be great:

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-flatpak-on-centos

Regards,
Dominic

On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 8:16 AM Dominic Hopf <[email protected]> wrote:

> So I don't have any CentOS 7 system up and running somewhere. Can you
> check if this ominous Red Hat Developer Toolset can be found on your CentOS
> 7 machine and what the package name is?
> If so, that still doesn't have to mean that the build servers in the
> Fedora infrastructure responsible for building EPEL packages have the same
> package available, but I can try, at least.
>
> Regards,
> Dominic
>
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:57 AM H via Users <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 06/20/2023 08:29 PM, Lex Trotman via Users wrote:
>> > 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
>> >>>>>>>
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>> >> 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?
>> Yes, I have been using an earlier version on my CentOS 7 system. CentOS
>> and RHEL are ABI compatible. The same repositories are used for software to
>> be downloaded.
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